Find me at Hunger Mountain (the journal)

 I recently became one of the assistant editors of The Writing Life section of Hunger Mountain, a literary journal based out of Vermont College of Fine Arts. I have two blog posts up on Another Loose Sally**, which is the journal's blog. Last week I posted the first of my bi-monthly round-up of writing-related links, and today I published a little essay about literary citizenship.

Here's an excerpt:

When the opportunity to be a submission reader for Hunger Mountain came along, I thought it was a great chance to learn about a journal from the inside out. I also hoped that it might bring me some good juju, a little cosmic extra credit when it came time for me to start submitting to journals. Maybe the submission gods would smile on me, perhaps reward me with publication the very first time I submitted. And then The Best American Essays series would anthologize me! I would enjoy a bright and shiny publishing future, devoid of all the angst and rejection I’d heard so many others talk about. Yes indeed, this being a volunteer reader could work out well…. At the very least, I figured it would give me a practical education in the do’s and don’ts of the art of submitting.

Read the full post here.

**Where does the blog name "Another Loose Sally" come from? Here: "Essay: a loose sally of the mind; an irregular undigested piece; not a regular and orderly composition." ~ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary