The Fail Safe

"Actually I have this memoir that I accidentally finished." At long freakin' last, we have @carmenmmachado's excellent interview up for your listening pleasure! Check. It. Out. thefailsafepodcast.com/carmen-maria-m…

“This unfinished story was written in 1963, in a notebook directly following the first draft of the short story ‘The Rule of Names.” ISSUE 7 OUT NOW! Ft. a never-before-published draft by #UrsulaLeGuin + drafts by Carmen Maria Machado & Chris Radcliff draftjournal.com/issues/issue-7

❌From the Annals of Rejection❌ “I’m afraid we can’t use it…” A most genteel rejection from the @3pennyreview

✨WRITERS’ SPACES✨are spaces that fascinate us. We love to see where a writer spends her time and the objects she keeps within her creative field. Visit our website to see even more spaces from our contributors. We’ll be sharing more pics here, too! Happy drafting.

"...The belief persists among some artists that doing art means doing things flawlessly...It seems vastly more plausible to advance the counter-principle, namely that imperfection is not only a common ingredient in art, but very likely an essential ingredient." —ART AND FEAR

My book is in the world today! Thank God I’ve got friends who save my life daily and nail the celebratory emojis.

Meet our poetry judges! @RachaelDCarlson from @IowaCityofLit / @yoderama from @missioncreekIC, @failsafepodcast, @draftjournal / Andrea Wilson from @iawritershouse / @crhayesralston, a writer + storyteller for @uiowa's Week of Inspiration. bit.ly/SSWpoetry2018

So excited to say that my next book is coming out next fall: an essay collection called MAKE IT SCREAM, MAKE IT BURN. Thank god my stepdaughter has already nailed the cover art.

Eeep! Couldn’t be more thrilled for @carmenmmachado !!

Voted. Your turn.

Congrats to the extraordinary @haszombiesinit for her MacArthur Genius Grant! (Hear her talk process on episode 11)

thanks to my beloved @KristenRadtke for immortalizing my most skeptical/disapproving looks in the glossy, perfumed pages of @marieclaire

Fairy Tale Passioneers! You have exactly two weeks to send us your poetry and prose for the 2018 Fairy Tale Review Awards! JANE MILLER and KATHRYN DAVIS to judge the finalists. fairytalereview.com/submit/contest…

“Keep going.”

‘There’s only one thing he cannot touch: the green ribbon around her neck. It is the only thing that is hers alone.’ From Carmen Maria Machado's The Husband Stitch: granta.com/the-husband-st…

Couldn’t. Agree. More.

#ShareYourRejection I want to tag ALL of my book news with this: FEAR ICONS took 7 years to write. The individual essays in the book were rejected > 200 times. The book was rejected by > 40 publishers. Until it wasn't. There was 1 rule that got me through...

Once was told People wanted to review my book but then they never did, but they DID review Sally Mann. I’m pretty sure they just got the names confused, and now I feel great anger and pain in the checkout aisle at Walgreens #ShareYourRejections

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