Our Needs at This Time: Moving Beyond Rejection | Arts + Literature Laboratory | Madison Contemporary Arts Center

Our Needs at This Time: Moving Beyond Rejection

Every writer is familiar with the endless wait for responses on submissions and the sheer volume of rejections this industry manages to produce. What is happening on the other side of that Submittable queue or email? And how do you stay resilient when there are so few spots for so many submissions? Michelle Wildgen is a novelist and a longtime editor who can tell you about both sides of the desk. She will offer an overview of the road a submission might take for a journal like Tin House, describe a few do’s and don’t’s for submitting your work, and talk about how to balance your writing with your publishing and stay positive throughout. Then we’ll open it up to questions from the minute to the big picture, so come ready to ask them.

This program is part of our DRAW: Developing Resiliency in Artists + Writers series which is made possible by a grant from Madison Arts Commission.

Madison WI Writer Michelle Wildgen

Michelle Wildgen has nearly two decades of experience in the publishing world, including 18 years with the literary journal Tin House Magazine, most recently as executive editor. She is a cofounder and teacher of creative writing at the Madison Writers’ Studio, and the author of three novels: Bread and Butter, But Not for Long, and You’re Not You, which has been adapted for a film starring Hilary Swank and Emmy Rossum. 

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