“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.” --Sylvia Plath

Saturday, March 17, 2012

pop the champagne!!!! {best acceptance letter in the history of acceptance letters}

I was absolutely blown away when I got home last night and found this email from the editor of a journal I'd submitted poems to (for privacy reasons I'm not going to disclose the name of the journal or its editor):

Dear Sarah Certa,

Thank you for sending us your work.


Fabulous. Fabulous. Fabulous. To be honest, I'm jealous and wish I'd written them all myself, so jealous in fact, I can't decide which of them to accept. I want them all, but I can't be that greedy. So, I'll tell you what, as a writer I know I always have preference for where I'd like to see a piece end up when I simultaneously submit and then it sometimes ends up in another place. This might sound crazy, but you tell me what poem(s) you'd like to see in [the journal] and then whichever or however many you choose will be featured in the June print issue.


Thanks again for your interest in [the journal] and I look forward to hearing from you in the near future (that's if you don't think I'm too crazy for offering you an unusual kind of acceptance letter). 


Um, WHAT?! I didn't know this could happen. Needless to say, my stomach was doing (still kind of is whenever I think about it) all kinds of crazy flippity-floppity shit. I'm flabbergasted. And so encouraged.

This photo is the best I could find that accurately depicts my emotions in response to this news:


 fuck yeahhhhhhhh!

5 comments:

  1. SARAH!! CONGRATULATIONS!! What sweet news! Pop some champagne for sure -- I'm so happy for you!

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  2. DUDE! HOW DID YOU NOT TELL ME THIS TODAY!?!?!?!?!?!

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    1. ha...oops? it feels weird to say this shit in person!

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  3. Congrats!!! This is so exciting! Let me know what [Journal] later. I want one!

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    1. Thanks Lindsay! I'll definitely let you know! It comes out in June :)

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