Tag: Megan Alpert

I Created the Submissions Event That I Needed (next one 7/15!) – guest post by Megan Alpert

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In 2025, I returned to submissions after several years away, during which I published a book and had a daughter. I’d drop my daughter off at daycare, go to a cafe about a block away, and amp myself up with caffeine while I tried to bang out five […]

What It Takes to Publish a Book of Poetry – guest post by Megan Alpert

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When my book, The Animal at Your Side, won the Airlie Prize in 2019, it was the culmination of a seven-year submissions process in which I often wondered whether to keep going. I finished the book in 2012 and started sending it out in earnest in 2013. I didn’t […]

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