Scant hours to go before 2024 is in the rearview mirror and 2025 is on the doorstep. Feels like it’s been both a very long and really short year.
I have been part of some amazing things this year. Projects I am extremely proud of–Dastardly Damsels; Sleeve of Hearts; and my own poetry collection Two Dozen Stars, dedicated to the father I lost in March.
I edited an anthology that should be available in February, which I absolutely loved. Even as I write this I am taking a break from going through the galley of a re-release of Skellyman, coming soon from Mocha Memoirs Press.
I applied for the inaugural Austin Poet Laureate position. (And I played lots and lots of Factorio with my husband.)
Submission-wise, I’ve had years with better numbers, but I have also had years with way worse.
| Jan | 5 | 8 | 2 | 28 |
| Feb | 8 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| Mar | 6 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| Apr | 5 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| May | 1 | 1 | 8 | |
| Jun | 7 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| Jul | 9 | 2 | 5 | |
| Aug | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
| Sept | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Oct | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Nov | 8 | 8 | 4 | 18 |
| Dec | 5 | 3 | 3 | 15 |
| YTD | 58 | 38 | 21 | 118 |
(Columns on that stubborn table are Month; Rejections; Acceptances; Publications; and Submissions)
I have ambitious goals for next year–including writing a poem a day and building my Substack.
Here’s to a grand year for us all!
Rie Sheridan Rose 
Pretty good year, sis! I can’t believe how many submissions you got out! I’m amazed by how much you do!
Here’s to a prolific 2025!
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Thanks, Sis. Couldn’t have done it without you!
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