Reach from the silence and take your dish

[sovay]

And now, an actual announcement.

I have accepted a position as poetry editor at Strange Horizons. Admittedly there are others, but that shouldn't hinder you from sending stuff. I am looking forward to finding out how this process works: I've been a contributing editor for Not One of Us since 2004, but never personally responsible for an entire inbox full of poems.

(Seriously, send stuff. The things I hear about slush are terrifying.)

Comments

[shweta-narayan.livejournal.com]

This! is a happiness!
Well, for me anyway. Maybe the slush pile is not so very happy for you ...

I'd sort of given up on sending poetry to SH; I shall un-give-up now :)

[sovay]

I'd sort of given up on sending poetry to SH; I shall un-give-up now

I feel productive already.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Oh, glorious! May good things come to you.

Nine

[sovay]

May good things come to you.

Thank you!

[erzebet.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! May your slush not be as dire as it could be. :)

[sovay]

Congratulations! May your slush not be as dire as it could be.

Thank you! From your mouth to writers' ears.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Oh Sovay!!

That is just so perfect I can't even say.

[sovay]

That is just so perfect I can't even say.

Thank you!

[helivoy.livejournal.com]

Congratulations... I think.

SH hasn't updated their masthead yet, though the successive announcements about staff changes are coming fast and thick.

Let me know how your schedule looks this weekend.

[sovay]

Congratulations... I think.

I'll take them. I think it's going to be a good thing.

SH hasn't updated their masthead yet, though the successive announcements about staff changes are coming fast and thick.

I'm official: as of this morning my bio's up.

Let me know how your schedule looks this weekend.

Can do!

[time-shark.livejournal.com]

I think recruiting you is a great move on their part. Congrats!

[sovay]

Congrats!

Thank you!

[wirewalking.livejournal.com]

What Shweta said. Also congrats! May your slush be full of shinies.

[sovay]

Also congrats! May your slush be full of shinies.

Thank you! I like that blessing.

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! I echo [Bad username or site: time shark @ livejournal.com]'s words.

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

er sorry, I meant time_shark's words. My LJ-fu is deserting me in my excitement.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Congrats! Do they accept simultaneous subs?

[sovay]

Congrats!

Thank you!

Do they accept simultaneous subs?

Guidelines say no, alas. You'll just have to write more poems.

[tithenai.livejournal.com]

Sonya, I gasped VERY LOUDLY on reading this. HOORAY! Congratulations! I'm so very excited about what this heralds for SH's poetry.

[sovay]

HOORAY! Congratulations! I'm so very excited about what this heralds for SH's poetry.

Thank you! I shall try to live up to it.

[larryhammer]

Yowsas. Also, What Shweta Said. I'll have to dig through my shoddy record-keeping to figure out what hasn't already bounced off been to SH.

---L.

[sovay]

Also, What Shweta Said. I'll have to dig through my shoddy record-keeping to figure out what hasn't already bounced off been to SH.

Sweet.

[sovay]

Oh, congratulations!

Thank you!

This makes me want to start writing poetry again.

I approve of this impulse!

[deliasherman.livejournal.com]

That's wonderful!

[sovay]

That's wonderful!

I'm rather amazed to have been asked!

[kenjari.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[sovay]

Congratulations!

Thank you!

[gaudior.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! That should be cool. Go, you!

[sovay]

Go, you!

Thank you!

(Do you write poetry?)

[genarti]

Oh, marvelous! Congratulations!

[sovay]

Congratulations!

Thank you!

[gwynnega]

Marvelous news!!

[sovay]

Marvelous news!!

I was pleased!

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Congratulations! I hope all goes very well.

[sovay]

Congratulations! I hope all goes very well.

Thanks!

[astromachy.livejournal.com]

That's awesome!

[sovay]

That's awesome!

I wasn't expecting it!

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! May there be many joys among the slush.

[sovay]

Congratulations! May there be many joys among the slush.

Thank you! I have hopes.

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

That's wonderful news! Congratulations. I'm happy to hear you'll be involved in collecting yet more outstanding works :) Hope you enjoy the process and outcomes.

[sovay]

Hope you enjoy the process and outcomes.

Even if it's a nightmare, it'll be interesting. But I don't think that's going to be the result.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! I have asked my student/friend who assistant edits the local literary journal if she has any particularly good poets...

(I have not given her your actual name, to minimise the size of your slush pile. I have, however, given her my brother's, but he has INTERNS to deal with scriptwriting contest entries...)

[sovay]

Congratulations!

Thank you!

I have asked my student/friend who assistant edits the local literary journal if she has any particularly good poets...

Awesome. I look forward, although I doubt very much I'll know which ones they are . . .

[hans-the-bold.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Here's a bit of stuff to make the slush seem good:

There once was a poet named Hans
Who couldn't find anything that rhymed with Hans
So he ended every line with Hans
Except for the science fiction part which was Blans

Look out, William Shakespeare!

[sovay]

Look out, William Shakespeare!

. . . my sweet precious fucking eyes.