At The Cascadia Subduction Zone's April 2015 Issue!

The poems:
"This is How You Teach a Bird to Walk"

and

"The Weight of Forgiveness"

Link to Aqueduct Press' Blog Post

Acceptance Letters First Quarter 2015

I have not been as prolific as I'd like. But I do believe I've been producing higher quality work lately. More inspired. More meaty.

70% of the time, I submit work to paying publications. The other 30% are for the non-paying zines that I either read already or read ABOUT in reviews. I choose paying pubs for several reasons:

1. The curation of the work is USUALLY of higher quality.
2. They place a budget on cover art.
3. They place a premium value on art, contributing to a culture that supports artists.

This is not to say that non-paying joints produce low-quality work. But I have seen it happen. Perhaps because the publisher has a free reign to include as many literary pieces as it likes. Like padding. I have also, however, seen non-paying reviews that publish high quality work. I enjoyed reading these journals so much that I wonder why they aren't getting the readership they deserve?!

Anyway, here are the places where I will appear in this year.

• The Philippines Graphic Magazine - "As We Wake" (Already out, March 2, 2015)
• Mythic Delirium 2.1 - "The Secret Life of Cabinets"
• Garden Gnome Publications' Deluge Anthology - "Aqualung"
• The Write Place at the Write Time - "Frying Eggs" and "To the Coddled Youth"
• The Cascadia Subduction Zone - "This How You Teach a Bird to Walk" and "The Weight of Forgiveness."
• Nameless Magazine - "The Gospel of Gossip", "The Verbose Contagion", "The Devil's Darning Needle"
• Dreams and Nightmares - "A Witch's Thousand Years of Joy"

Thank you to the editors for the opportunity!

:)