We loved meeting so many incredible authors at #AWP20 and we are so excited to read all the new submissions we got, starting March 20th! If you haven’t sent yours in yet, don’t worry, you still have 13 days!
Have you submitted to High Noon’s New Beginnings issue yet? There’s still time! Send us your best, weirdest, wildest pieces about the start of something💕🥰
“People assume that just because they love books, that means they’re good people.” Loving books isn’t enough. Every publisher (lit mag, ie. us), editor(us again), and agent has a responsibility to educate themselves and interrogate their acceptances, suggestions, and rejections.
A final thought from @KieseLaymon visit today- during the student Q and A, he spoke about how unintentional (or intentional) racism in the publishing industry controls which individual voices are heard and what subjects those individuals get paid to talk about. On publishers-
never shotgunned a “beer” before but ive shotgunned a book. thats when u read a novel very quickly and get messed up because your relationship with the characters you were emotionally invested in along with their world no longer exists. idk why but barstool will not post this
AttnTexas-based or Texan writers: High Noon is open for submissions! We would love works from new/unheard voices and seasoned writers with new stories to tell 4 our New Beginnings issue @uhcwp@txstmfa@UNTEnglish@MichenerCenter (if we didn’t tag you, we still want your work!)
Thread! I want to gently encourage you not to be afraid to tell artists how their work makes you feel. I think people hold back a lot because they don't feel 'qualified' to comment, they might not know the terminology, they might feel the way they can express what a work 1/4