March Madness kicks off in just over a week. Meanwhile, I'm hoping for my own kind of March Madness- the kind where acceptances just pour in and I roll aroun...

Hey again friends and rivals. I have new rejections for you (of course,) but also I wanted to chat with you about something. I've been thinking about it and ...

It was only once it had passed that I realized my last post was my 69th ever post in The Losing Game. The occasion went utterly unmarked. Have I, against my ...

Happy Valentine's Day you gorgeous nerds. I hope you're either feeling the love or finding likeminded people to commiserate about the commercialized nature o...

Happy February friends! In these chillier reading months, I hope you're refilling on story. I hope you're enjoying all these series finales. I hope you're dr...

To quote the poet: After last year's combo breaker of a rejection streak, (and by combo I mean spirit,) I told a friend who has been with me on this journey ...

Over a tenth of the way to my goal and less than a twelfth of the way through the year. The math looks good, kids. This time of year a ton of journals and ma...

Hey pals! In the vein of taking my lessons from last year, go where you're wanted, I submitted to a place that had already accepted me. And I sent out a piec...

I'm out! The pressure is off! Someone get me a slightly smushed grocery store cake, because I've got an acceptance and I can retire. JK I'm married to the gr...

Happy New Year, writers! Being critical thinkers or whatever I know we know that time is a construct and arbitrary and this that and the other, but also as c...

Happy New Year, friends and rivals! What are your hopes for 2020? I have a ton myself, because 2019 was wild. For me, 2019 was a year of creative injury, but...

Aren't I always telling you how editors are ceaseless hard workers? December 31st, New Years Eve, while the rest of the city is running around to liquor stor...

Well, I did ask for more responses before the year ended. Nobody can say this isn't on me. And of course two came within minutes of each other, like a hard "...

Good holidays, pals? I had a pretty good holiday. I've been in the same flannel onesie for three days, so you know. Holiness achieved. 2019 is nearly done,...

If I have accomplished nothing else this year (and I haven't,) I've at least hit a personal all time high for number of rejections in a year. After the last ...

You know what I love? Pasta. In addition to pasta, I love theme issues. LOVE them. They often serve as prompts, causing me to write new poems if I don't have...

Hello and welcome to this edition of The Losing Game where the theme of the post is rejections with stories attached! Each one will come with the context in w...

Hello again folks, welcome to the uncommon interim update post, a great excuse to finally use tildes like it's MSN messenger again. After my last rejection...

November is coming to a close, the time change is active, and 4:30 PM feels like bed time. I hope you're all holding up okay, finding your coziness, building...

Hello friends and rivals, We are gathered here today to read about this most exciting of third writing acceptances. If you had talked to me in September, I w...