Writing on...Finalist at Longleaf Press

What's that phrase about always the bridesmaid? Got a letter today from Longleaf Press to tell me I was a finalist in their 2010 Chapbook Contest...but that Cecilia Rodriguez Milanes had won with her collection Everday Chica.

But it's not a bad average so far. Eight chapbook entries and one refusal and one "made the final cut' so far. Plus rejections from Connecticut Review, Agni and Greensboro Review. It's getting to the end of the reading phase for many literaries, so the rejections should start coming fast and furious.

Today my copy of Poets and Writers arrived. So I need to take a look at the call for submissions in the back and keep this process rolling.