Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Whoopee!!

After 4 rejections from various poetry magazines I've finally had 2 poems accepted for publication!!!!!!!!!!

Poetry Scotland have accepted An Aberlady Sunset (thanks honest man!) and Rest and be Thankful both to be published in their next issue.
The only poem I've ever had published to date was years ago in the Glasgow Herald when I won an Edwin Morgan competition, so I'm so excited about this!

Also got StAnza to look forward to this weekend where I'll be hearing readings from Michael Schmidt, Alison Brackenbury, Kenneth White, Robert Alan Jamieson and Ken Cockburn, and Janice Galloway in conversation with Helena Nelson and if I get there early enough I'll hear A B Jackson and Alexander Hutchison talking on the Glasgow poetry scene.

And thanks to swiss I entered my own translation of a German poem into the masterclass translation workshop led by Ken Cockburn with Helmut Haberkamm, Fitzgerald Kusz, Robert Alan Jamieson and Alexander Hutchison. It turns out they will be discussing my poem among many others so it looks like I get to read it out!

What a week !

7 comments:

James Owens said...

Congratulations! I've absolutely no doubt that these two acceptances will be followed by many more. Your poems are truly fine and deserve publication.

Marion McCready said...

thankyou, that's very kind of you!

swiss said...

nice one!

Marion McCready said...

thanks swiss!

Anonymous said...

Congrats to your publication. That must be very exciting that a broader range of people can now read your work. Peace

Marion McCready said...

thanks teenypoet!

Anonymous said...

Congratulations, sorlil! Keep at it. Rejection is endemic in a field in which submission outweighs outlets by a massive margin. So hoard the acceptances - nothing can take them away!