How I did it: http://library.crisischronicles.com/  <--this is where I am published.    more specifically here: http://library.crisischronicles.com/2012/01/14/the-quiet-by-natalie-webster.aspx

I think a total of 5 of my pieces are going to go up on this library.  I've also been published in The Nexxus and Force Fed by Take it to the Streets Poetry and on Infloressence (online blog).

Here we go:

I've submitted my poetry to a couple of places that take just about everyone.  I also have been networked through a writer friend with a LOT of really amazing poets on Facebook.  One of them has an online library and so after a year or so of being friends on FB with this person I finally mustered the guts to submit to his online library.  He's backlogged on reading submissions but accepted my pieces.  I feel like each place I've been accepted are absolutely huge and noteworthy but I waited for this one because it wasn't a sure fire thing when I handed in the pieces.  I'm going to keep sending my work out and my next goal is to get a chapbook published.  I'm going to start compiling a collection of stuff I've already written and new stuff.   Super amped.

Lessons & tips: Be patient. Be organized.  I would have had an easier time if I had some sort of spreadsheet with titles and what I'd submitted where.  Also, having a document with "final drafts" would be great too.  I realized during the process that I had some poems that were the same piece but had very minor line changes.  Kind of confusing and frustrating when you know one was "better" than the other but cannot decipher them when you sit down to pick.  So, yeah, organization.

And patience.  Send it out.  Wait.  Send it out again.  Wait.  Etc.

Resources: http://library.crisischronicles.com/

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Jan 17, 11:27AM PST | 5 comments | 10 cheers