After a month of waiting, my application for the Poets & Writers directory was accepted this evening! If you’re unfamiliar with the site, it is basically a large listing of traditionally published writers along with listings of various literary magazines. You can indicate that you are interested in being contacted or are opening for readings but, in all honesty, it’s more to give you writer street cred.
To be listed you need so many “points” based off of your publication history along with proof of publication. This was the hardest part for me, unfortunately, due to smaller presses I was in no longer operating. A couple magazines were scrubbed from the Internet archives (*insert Star Wars prequel meme here*). But much unlike our bae Obi Wan Kenobi, I was able to use the Wayback Machine to save some screen shots. Someone needs to tell Star Wars engineers about the importance of redundancy.
Anyway, I have my profile link below if you want to check it out or if you are interested in applying yourself.
https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/m_a_dubbs
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