What's new on Chill Subs?
Calendar update, optional rejection BINGO, new workshop, lists and more.
Our calendar looks so PRETTY now!
And useful!
Use it to track the reading periods, openings, closings, and more for all your favorite listings. → Check it out here. ← It’s free and open to all.
In other news, we made Rejection BINGO an optional pop-up for folks using our tracker. We received some feedback that not everyone likes gamifying their rejections. Totally understand. You can now always find it beneath your submissions on your tracker page.
In our Sub Club Newsletter, we released some new lists:
And
finished her course on how to grow a newsletter!And next week we’ll have Andrea Firth teaching how to write a personal essay! First 4 lessons are free!
Essay
Love, Death, and Quevedo by Nora Carr
Here’s the problem with “enamored,” though: It’s a mushy word. It falls apart in your mouth when you say it. It doesn’t have the quick, even rhythm of the Spanish “enamorado,” and it doesn’t have the lightness—the lifting trill of the soft “r”—in the middle.
Interviews
Katie Jean Shinkle and Steven Dunn: On Writing a Novel Together, Challenging Dominant Narratives of Otherness With Pure Joy, and How Writing Is Informed by Place by Elle Nash
We were thinking about what we want and what we deserve. We deserve to be happy together and treat each other kindly. So the point was for nobody in that community to treat each other badly. That's how a lot of the joy and tenderness and softness came about, because of the things we don't want, that we see ourselves represented in all the time.
GRWM interview from our WOD newsletter
Free Workshop
On May 11th, join Alex Baia, humor writer and editor of Slackjaw, for a free workshop, You Can Be Funny Now: How To Start Writing Humor! Whether you're new to writing humor or you have been dabbling at it for a while, this workshop is for you. Details here
Saturday, April 13 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (EST)
Small Press Publishing with a Debut Seminar with Emily Jon Tobias
Looking for a publisher to call home for your manuscript? Emily Jon Tobias will share her successes and failures along the journey to find a home for her debut story collection, MONARCH. You will learn about writing query letters (agents vs. presses), tracking submissions, the research process, fees, red flags, green flags, how to best navigate technology with productive, simple tools, and, perhaps most importantly, how to handle the emotional pressure of rejection after rejection.
*This workshop will be recorded if you can’t attend live!
Sunday, April 14 from 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM (EST)
Land Big Bylines by Writing for Columns with
In this workshop, Courtney will explain the crux of popular columns for top publications. You'll do a brainstorming exercise for each, and there will be an opportunity to workshop your ideas and ask questions. You'll receive a list of potential columns and editor contact information for each. By the end, you'll have a game plan for landing your best bylines yet!
*This workshop will be recorded if you can’t attend live!
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Here's why I am no longer using Chill Subs. Even though I registered as a CS user, each time I tried to access the database, it says it has sent a code to my email. This is a rarely used email -- so now I must stop what I am doing, go to this other email to log in. Then by the time I'm there, I get a message the code has expired. I'm sorry Chill Subs complicated its system of access. It's probably for a good reason but it's not working out for me.