A couple of weeks ago I received the following email:
I happened to be with my best friend, Virginia, at the time and I nearly tackled her with a hug in my excitement. Earlier in the day we’d been decorating (and drinking wine) as she tried to get me into the holiday spirit. Needless to say, that email was the best Christmas gift I could have asked for.
I’m really excited to be publishing with Flutter Press and my chapbook should come out in early 2018. It’s titled The Violence Within and it’s a collection of poems about violence toward women – by partners, by family and friends, by society, and also the violence we inflict upon ourselves. It isn’t always the easiest collection of poems to read but I do feel it’s a very necessary collection. And while it’s a bit of a heavy read I also think there’s some hope in it too.
In addition to my second chapbook getting accepted I’ve got a new poem up at Dirty Paws Poetry Review. I’m really excited my poem, We Carry, is included in their inaugural issue! Go check it out!
[…] over 200 times. I was rejected a lot, a lot are still pending, but I also got 26 poems and a chapbook accepted for publication. 26 may not sound like a lot but to me, it is. (You can read my published […]
Congratulations, Courtney! I was one of the privileged editors who got to read your chapbook collection, and I’d like to shake the hand of the folks at Flutter who snatched it up. They knew a good thing when they saw it. I also really loved your poem “We Carry” and would like to invite you to submit again to Minerva Rising. 26 IS a lot of publications in a year, you should be very proud!