Today was a good inbox day. I racked up a few more individual poem rejections (healthy, because it means I put my work out there), and learned that my collection didn't make it to the shortlist for the award it was in the running for. Bummers. BUT my email held some very high points, as... Continue Reading →
Longlisted for the International Beverly Prize for Literature!
I'm thrilled to have received a message from Black Springs Press Group today that my full-length poetry manuscript Tell the Bees has been longlisted for the International Beverly Prize for Literature! I am in the throes of marketing (if you can call it that) for my current forthcoming collection The Light Becomes Us (Main Street... Continue Reading →
Milestone: Rejection #600
I just logged individual poem rejection #600, counted since I started submitting work again in November 2024. Musing on whether I was sad about that hefty beast of a number, I have to say I am decidedly not. First, the math of it. (Note: I engage in simultaneous submissions for most of my work, so... Continue Reading →
Two More Poems Accepted!
I am thrilled to report that today I received not one but two new poem acceptances! Abraxas Review will be publishing "I Dreamt I Was Unblemished," and Yearling out of Workhorse will be publishing "A Family Fairy Tale" in their annual volume this coming winter. I have a particular affection for these two pieces, and... Continue Reading →
Let’s Talk Covers and Human Art
Y'all, when I tell you I'm in love with the cover of my new collection The Light Becomes Us, I don't mean I like it. I mean that I squee with all the glee of a little girl given ice-cream truck money. (And not the regular ice cream truck, the Mr. Softee, only-came-around-after-bedtime, rare-treat ice... Continue Reading →
Coming soon: a full collection AND a chapbook!
I am thrilled to report that in addition to releasing my new full-length poetry collection The Light Becomes Us (Main Street Rag) this summer and anticipating a fine press treatment of another full-length collection, Babylon Songs (First Bite Press, forthcoming), the small press boats against the current has accepted my poetry chapbook Toothache in the... Continue Reading →
Colleen S. Harris 