Writing Activity, September 2024

Since January 2021, I’ve been keeping a list of my writing activity for each month (here’s last month’s). I do so partly as a form of encouragement for myself to show that I am still able to do some writing despite the energy-sucking terrors of our times, and partly as an archive that I can look back on in the future. As such, I include negative happenings (e.g., receiving rejections), not just positive ones.

I think that it is important for me to share my list publicly as a genderqueer bisexual disabled Latinx writer because mainstream discourse tries to either pretend voices such as mine do not exist or actively tries to suppress them. Whether one is part of an oppressed group or not, writing is an essential act of resistance in these terrible times, so I hope that my list offers encouragement to others.

The list is basically in chronological order.

1. Wrote a haiku or senryu on most mornings.

2. Updated the Mennonite/s Writing Bibliographies.

3. Submitted ten poems to Blithe Spirit and had two accepted.

4. Had one of the poems I submitted to Haiku Canada Review last month accepted.

5. Had a microchapbook I submitted to a press rejected.

6. Submitted my novella manuscript to a contest.

7. Worked on commentaries about the poetry of some of my fellow confluence fellows.

8. Had three poems published in #FemkuMag 36 (Summer 2024): 16, 24.

9. Submitted eight poems for consideration for the next issue of #FemkuMag.