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So, this is me being inordinately excited.
The poem I wrote about Tithenai's winter tree? The one that got published on Bywords.ca?
It made the cut and is going into the summer edition of the Bywords Quarterly Journal! (!!!)
This is hyooooooje for me. :-D
I mean, one, it's a journal that is actually made out of *paper*. Which, for me, is a big deal. To date, I've pretty-much only been published online[1]. But, on top of this: they are going to pay me actual money. For both the poem and for reading said poem (and a couple of other pieces, enough to fill five minutes) at the launch on July 17th[2].
Anyway. So I'm, like, massively chuffed. I have no earthly notion how much they'll be paying me. It's "nominal", so I'm assuming it's, like, $5 for the poem and about as much for the reading. Or something. But even still. I'm getting paid to be a POET!!! This is enormous! :-D
Anyway. So I tweaked the poem a little bit (moved one word to a different line), and re-wrote my bio. So many people hate writing bios, but I kinda love it. It's like: "Who do I want to be for this audience?" It's like... Okay. When I went to University, I lived in residence for the first two years, even though I went to school in Ottawa. (My parents wanted me to have *some* independence, basically). And when I packed my clothes to move onto campus, I thought really hard about "who" I wanted to be. Clothes are code-words for tribes and phamilies, after all.
And I find that writing bios is similar. If I need a bio for Gourmandia, I mention being an urban organic gardener who's really interested in seasonal local food and permaculture. And I am 100% of those things. If I need a bio for an dyke-tastic erotica submission, I talk about being a queer femme and a model who's really interested in sex-work and gender. And I'm 100% of those things, too. If I were submitting a poem to the We'Moon calendar, I'd bio myself as a feminist animist and as someone who's practiced Goddess Spirituality for roughly half her life.
It's so... It lets me shine my own spotlight on various aspects of Fabulous Me that my audience will be most likely to relate to without having to put the censors on myself.
Anyway. I need to skedaddle. I've got recipes to write and porn to finish, plus I need to email my art classes and see if anyone needs to book a model in the near future. :-)
- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)
[1] Which is not to say that an online publication is to be sneezed at, it's just not something I can hold in my hand or put on my shelf and, later, point to and say "Look at page seven. That one's mine." Y'know?).
[2] At 2pm, at Collected Works in Hintonburg. :-D
The poem I wrote about Tithenai's winter tree? The one that got published on Bywords.ca?
It made the cut and is going into the summer edition of the Bywords Quarterly Journal! (!!!)
This is hyooooooje for me. :-D
I mean, one, it's a journal that is actually made out of *paper*. Which, for me, is a big deal. To date, I've pretty-much only been published online[1]. But, on top of this: they are going to pay me actual money. For both the poem and for reading said poem (and a couple of other pieces, enough to fill five minutes) at the launch on July 17th[2].
Anyway. So I'm, like, massively chuffed. I have no earthly notion how much they'll be paying me. It's "nominal", so I'm assuming it's, like, $5 for the poem and about as much for the reading. Or something. But even still. I'm getting paid to be a POET!!! This is enormous! :-D
Anyway. So I tweaked the poem a little bit (moved one word to a different line), and re-wrote my bio. So many people hate writing bios, but I kinda love it. It's like: "Who do I want to be for this audience?" It's like... Okay. When I went to University, I lived in residence for the first two years, even though I went to school in Ottawa. (My parents wanted me to have *some* independence, basically). And when I packed my clothes to move onto campus, I thought really hard about "who" I wanted to be. Clothes are code-words for tribes and phamilies, after all.
And I find that writing bios is similar. If I need a bio for Gourmandia, I mention being an urban organic gardener who's really interested in seasonal local food and permaculture. And I am 100% of those things. If I need a bio for an dyke-tastic erotica submission, I talk about being a queer femme and a model who's really interested in sex-work and gender. And I'm 100% of those things, too. If I were submitting a poem to the We'Moon calendar, I'd bio myself as a feminist animist and as someone who's practiced Goddess Spirituality for roughly half her life.
It's so... It lets me shine my own spotlight on various aspects of Fabulous Me that my audience will be most likely to relate to without having to put the censors on myself.
Anyway. I need to skedaddle. I've got recipes to write and porn to finish, plus I need to email my art classes and see if anyone needs to book a model in the near future. :-)
- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)
[1] Which is not to say that an online publication is to be sneezed at, it's just not something I can hold in my hand or put on my shelf and, later, point to and say "Look at page seven. That one's mine." Y'know?).
[2] At 2pm, at Collected Works in Hintonburg. :-D