Submit…submit…submit…

… and finally, if it stands up to scrutiny your story will find a home.

A story I’d written a long time ago and submitted over and over again through several rejections has been accepted for publication by The Missouri Review (https://www.missourireview.com). It will appear in their Fall edition, in print, digitally, and audio. I have also been granted the honour to have it included (ahead of publication) in their annual anthology.

This has meant a lot to me on several different levels: an endorsement that what I knew deep down was not only well-written but also a good story. It’s also a re-affirmation of the age-old adage ‘try, try, try, again’.

Come Fall it shall be available for all of you to read. Watch this space, I shall announce it!

A special shout out to friends in the BWC (Bahrain Writers’ Circle), Lynda Tavakoli (your appreciation of it gave me the courage to submit) Glen R Stansfield (for introducing me to Allison – who, with a few tweaks, took it to another level), family members who read it and liked it: Mridula Singha!

Thanks everyone!

After their acceptance, I googled The Missouri Review, and they’re among the top 50 literary magazines in the world! Success is sweet.

Thanks also to Monisha Gumber and her YouTube Channel Vachi Audiobooks, for giving me enough practice in presenting my own stories’ audio versions, that I had the confidence to do this for TMR.