Satisfaction

Unlike poetry, I have always felt very confident about my nonfiction writing. I spent years in college and graduate school polishing and refining my skills, for one, and for another, I’ve been lucky enough to have a measure of success with every nonfiction form I’ve tried. Finally, I read so much nonfiction that I’ve been pretty good at pitching my work to the right audience in the right way. For five or six years there, I sent out queries and pitches and articles regularly, but I haven’t done much in that arena since I started focusing on poetry.

However, now that I’m more confident in my new teaching arena, I naturally thought of writing about it in a more formal way than blogging, and started collecting different markets I’d be proud to be featured in–always a good way to find the right market for you, I have found. And my friend Laura and I have been having such great success working together this school year, presenting and collaborating on so many ideas, that the natural next step seemed publishing. So we sent a query to Independent Teacher for their special issue on reading, and very recently, our query was accepted!

I’ve never written with a co-author today, so that will certainly be challenging, but I’m very excited about our idea, and about taking this new step in my writing career. I’ve benefited so much from articles and books about teaching English since I started teaching at Single Sex School, and I’m thrilled to finally be contributing to the conversation myself.