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10 places to submit your writing in April 2025

I’m usually swimming in great places to submit—more places than I can write for, anyway. For 2025, I’m going to share a few of them every month. None of these charge fees (according to the information I have), and all should be open for submissions at least through the end of the month.

Harlequin Intrigue ...high-stakes thrillers and procedurals where determined characters go through a spectrum of tensions as they work to solve a crime.”

Reckon Review accepts prose (fiction and non-fiction) of an...

b.read.crumbs : It’s the Wrong Story!

THE BLATHERING

You know this one: “Sleeping Beauty,” or in the Blue Fairy Book, “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood.” Just in case you missed it or have forgotten the story, I’ll paraphrase and throw in some comments for free.

King and queen desperately want child, can’t have one, try everything but nothing brings them a child. Then they have a daughter. [Couldn’t we have skipped the whole intro? “There was born to the King and Queen a lovely daughter.”]

K&Q throw big party, invite all the fairies the...

Real American Hero: Sergeant Alfredo Cantu Gonzalez

What's this about?

Namesake of the U.S.S. Gonzalez

Sergeant Alfredo Cantu Gonzalez enlisted in the Marine Corps in June 1965. He served as a rifleman with 1st Reconnaissance Battalion for a year, then served with 3rd Marine Division (Rein), where he was promoted to Private First Class on January 1, 1966; to Lance Corporal on October 1, 1966, and to Corporal on December 1, 1966.

On July 1, 1967, Gonzalez was promoted to Sergeant just prior to arriving in Vietnam. He served there as Platoon Sergeant ...

Robert Garner McBrearty – 3 Questions & a Cover

Question1

What’s your Go-To source when you need inspiration?

Reading stories by other writers is a main source of inspiration. I will read a few pages of a favorite book, or sometimes something new that has come to my attention. When I’m reading for inspiration instead of just enjoyment, I read more for a sense of sound, of the writer’s voice, though it also helps to note the subject matter. What are the situations, who are the characters, where is the story set? One book I like to read Is Best M...

Real American Hero: Daniel Ken Inouye

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Daniel Inouye served in the U.S. Army during World War II—the first time we fought against Nazis. He served in a 442d Regimental Combat Team, a segregated unit composed of Nisei soldiers and led by whites. Inouye lost his right arm while charging machine gun nests on a hill in San Terenzo, Italy on April 21, 1945. A book titled America’s Concentration Camps (this was around 1970, so I don’t remember the author) tells the story of Inouye being refused service at a barber shop be...

Real American Heroes

I spotted this on Snopes:

Arlington National Cemetery removed links to webpages about Black, Hispanic and female veterans

Investigating a claim seen on social media, Snopes discovered that “between December 2024 and March 2025, several links to pages relating to Black, Hispanic and female veterans disappeared from Arlington National Cemetery’s website.”

Snopes reached out to Arlington National Cemetery and “cemetery officials confirmed that they “unpublished” the pages in question in compliance wit...

Crosspost: Don’t Lose Your Nerve: Discovering Disabled Forms and Structures

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Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop your disabled writing practice

Is It True...?

I was nearly 30 years old before I realized that it isn’t a federal offense to sing at the dinner table. Somewhere in my 3rd or 4th year of life, I was crooning a little ditty during dinner (which we call ‘supper’ in the South) and my mother said, “Don’t sing at the table.” My youthful brain took that as law, when it was probably just Mom’s way of telling me that I can’t carry a tune.

Brains are persnickety things. They don’t process what they don’t understand or what they can’t fit into their es...

10 places to submit your writing in March 2025

I’m usually swimming in great places to submit—more places than I can write for, anyway. For 2025, I’m going to share a few of them every month.

GOOD ADVICE: I read submissions for a literary journal, and 99% of the submissions I decline are simply not right for the journal. If you want to increase your chance of acceptance at any journal, read that journal to see what they publish. Study the journal. Assess the work that appears there. Send them what they want, not what you think they should wan...

How to Be Extraordinary

I’ll include some links with each monthly recap that I hope will be of help to you. Please let me know if that’s really so.

Recently a friend mentioned that he enjoys reading my email sig, which is this: May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you live with ease. It’s a traditional Buddhist loving-kindness meditation that I sometimes use in my yoga classes. I made it my email sig a while back, when—as I told my friend—I still believed that kindness could save us. I also told him that lately I’v...