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Kirsty Logan

Hello! I’m Kirsty Logan, a writer of novels and short stories. My latest book is Now She is Witch, a medieval witch revenge quest. 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 book is Now She is Witch, a medieval witch revenge quest. 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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