Tate N. Oquendo

[...] Today I jumped over some huge hurdles in my profession: I completed a revised query letter and chapter synopsis for my memoir. I learned a little about these topics in graduate school, [...]

[...] work to the pool. The quality is right. Now this is where things get fuzzy. Some places need a query letter first. Some need the manuscript formatted in a specific way. What the heck does traditional [...]

[...] Update: manuscript submissions are no longer unfamiliar territory. In the last couple of weeks, between two chapbooks [...]

I’m about to submit my nonfiction manuscript for the first time, and the experience is definitely shining a light on gaps in my knowledge. I’m ver [...]

[...] I’m about to submit my nonfiction manuscript for the first time, and the experience is definitely shining a light on gaps in my [...]

[...] unfamiliar territory. In the last couple of weeks, between two chapbooks and a nonfiction manuscript, I’ve sent out over fifty submissions. This has been time-consuming and expensive, [...]

[...] In this month without a post, I’ve been quiet, but not silent. In honor of National Poetry Month, I’ve been participating in the Sundress Publications NaPoWriMo! 30/30 project. In case [...]

[...] I mentioned this recently, but the National Poetry Month 30/30 project I participated in was the first time in a while that I’ve committed to [...]

[...] manuscript for over a year. Recently, I also completed my first chapbook, and am in the revision phase of a second (a collaboration, but more on this later).  It’s so hard to look at any of these [...]

[...] objectives were completed, of course, and now that I’m home we’re moving on to the revision phase of this together. The experience has been interesting; to paraphrase him (in his [...]

[...] , even my nonfiction, so that isn’t the part that induces hesitation. It’s that this is unfamiliar territory for me. I know that the manuscript is ready. Eyes have been over it, and frankly, I am [...]

[...] Update: manuscript submissions are no longer unfamiliar territory. In the last couple of weeks, between two chapbooks and a nonfiction manuscript, I’ve sent [...]

[...] thing I’ve been doing more of lately. I’m comfortable with sending individual pieces to literary journals, but I’m really digging around to find the right places to send my nonfiction and poetry [...]

[...] experience as an editor has helped with the confidence part. I’ve been reading for literary journals for over a decade, but within the last couple of years I’ve had the honor of getting [...]

[...] hours doing this today, and it was well worth it. If you’re submitting a fiction or memoir manuscript, you’ll run into the need for these materials eventually. Knock them out when you [...]