When I first decided to start teaching classes independently, I had a long phone conference with my teaching mentor, Sarah Selecky. She told me that in her more than 10 years of teaching independently, the one thing she’s found over and over again is that despite weeks of promoting the class, everyone signs up at…

In Part 1, I listed a number of small myths about submitting to a literary magazine. Here’s the biggest myth of all. Myth: If my work is rejected, that means it was awful. No. Well, not necessarily. Of the 15 stories I read per slush-batch, I’d say that on average at least 10-12 are indisputably…