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Kirsty Logan

Hello! I’m Kirsty Logan, a writer of novels and short stories. My latest work is the Audible Original The Sound at the End. My other books are Things We Say In The Dark, The Gloaming, The Gracekeepers, A Portable Shelter, and The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales.

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Kirsty Logan

Hello! I’m Kirsty Logan, a writer of novels and short stories. My latest work is the Audible Original The Sound at the End. My other books are Things We Say In The Dark, The Gloaming, The Gracekeepers, A Portable Shelter, and The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales.

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Eighteen Rejections

28th Mar 2010 in Books, Personal, Writing

I’m trying to write a review of Angela Readman’s poetry collection, Strip. It’s all about girls in the porn industry and it’s so fucking amazing that I just don’t know what to say about it. The more I like something, the harder it is to review.

I have an opinion piece in the Sunday Herald today. It’s the first bit of newspaper journalism I’ve ever written and I’ll be disappointed if I don’t get any angry hatemail or letter-bombs or people shouting at me in the street. Even some nasty disagreeing comments would be good. I like to know that people are paying attention.

I have a flash fiction that has now been rejected 18 times. I wrote it about two years ago while I was at uni and my creative writing tutor practically creamed his pants over it, which was fun because I don’t think he’s ever liked anything else I’ve ever written. It was incredibly difficult for me to write and I live in fear that someone will realise that it’s a true story. Usually if something had been rejected 18 times I would give up on it, but I genuinely think it’s a good piece of work. I’ve tried to edit it but it’s finished, it’s done. I just need to find an editor that likes it. It’s out at a couple of places just now, so maybe soon the rejections will be up to 20. And still I’ll keep sending it out.

4 responses to “Eighteen Rejections”

  1. Link to some poems (or type a preview?) of Readman’s please? Lazy.

  2. Kirsty Logan says:

    Too lazy to use Google? Impressive.

    There are extracts at Salt’s website (http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844713035.htm) and Angela’s own (http://www.accidentalpoet.co.uk/strip.php).

  3. Hi Kirsty,

    I am the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Wings of Icarus, a startup literary and arts journal. After about a year or so of being defunct, we’re now looking to get back up and running and introduce ourselves as a reputable source for good online fiction, poetry, and any other sort of literary concoction capable of opening/blowing minds. If you’d be interested, I’d love to consider your story for when we finally do get up and running again.

    Shoot it over to wingsoficarusjournal@gmail.com if you’d like.

    Thanks,

    Andrew David King

  4. Kirsty Logan says:

    Hi Andrew! The story is currently out at a few places, but please do keep me up to date on Wings of Icarus. If you have a mailing list, please feel free to add me: hello (at) kirstylogan.com.

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