HeyJaredMiscellaneous Wonders
Miscellaneous Wonders is an occasional newsletter about creative writing, artistic practice, academia and teaching, the business of publishing, and other little essays related to creativity and the working artist's life.
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All This Sympathy is Just a Knife (opens the original)
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13 Years and 654 Rejections Later (opens the original)
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Dear Friends,Recently a former student of mine wrote to me asking about the literary magazine submission process. They said they had been googling around trying to find advice, and surprise!: a newsletter from their former teacher came up. Whether I’m teaching in a university setting or independently, I sometimes leave some time in our final meeting (if applicable) to talk about the publishing process. I mean this as someone who teaches short-form work: short stories, poems, essays, micro-plays,
What Weirdness Means to Me (opens the original)
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Dear Friends,This past week I attended NecronomiCon here in Providence. It’s a convention based around H. P. Lovecraft and the ways he crystalized capital-W “Weird” as a type of genre. This con has been on my local bucket list for a while, despite me not necessarily having a deep connection to Lovecraft (or the Weird). Because some of my own creative work deals with dreams and dreamrealms, I’d read an anthology many years ago called The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft, which collects works dealin
On Teaching (& Teaching Queer Youth) (opens the original)
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Dear Friends,The year is halfway over now, and I went back to look at a list of “intentions” I set in January for myself—as well as a five-year plan that I made at the beginning of my PhD journey back in 2021. The latter caused me to laugh because apparently I wanted to have a draft of the novel manuscript I’ve now selected for my very-unfinished dissertation by the end of 2022. That plan also failed to account for the sixth and final year I’ll be taking to finish everything off, which will begi
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