This weekend's writing escapades have been mostly around finding places to send short stories and/or poetry. I checked out the "2010 Writer's Market" online. The reviews about this year's edition seem to be less than stellar. So, I'm not sure whether to get the 2009 edition or try something completely different. In doing research I came up with a few possibilities, but nothing great as yet.

I did re-find my copy of Rein's Magazine. I originally found it at work and wondered if they accept short stories. I looked through the whole magazine, which is beautiful visually, but I'm still nto sure if they will allow me to submit fiction. It's a fairly new and local magazine, so I e-mailed the regional manager to see if he is interested and gave a sentence or two about a story that I have about horses. I was compelled to write this story many years ago when I was home from college and worked at a racetrack for most of one summer, until I realized that horses were being mistreated. Then I quit and wrote a fictionalized story about it. That's the story I entered in Redbook's young authors contest. If Reins is interested then I'll send it and see how it goes.

I looked on a couple of websites to find some places to submit my work, but nothing much came of my search as yet. I did find a website called Stickman Review where I found a story called "Winners" that I really liked. There was quite a bit of poetry as well.

I looked through my old copy of The Childrens Writer's & Illustrators Market and found some possible places to publish. I'll have to check out their website for updated info because the edition I have is from 2005. That's it for now. XO