Tell Tell Interview Series: JD Scott chats with us about publishing.

JD read a poem from MASK FOR MASK, coming out super soon! They also pulled a card for us, so you’re not gonna want to miss this!

JD Scott wrote a brilliant book, so we chatted about the biz of publishing, what it takes to get your work accepted (cough 70 rejections cough), what it’s like marketing a poetry collection, and why you have to have a whole lot of gumption to make your poetry collection sell.

Oh yeah, and JD also pulled a card for you, so check it out!

JD also recommends some books you might like. Check them out here

Peep the links and PREORDER the book HERE.

JD Scott is the author of Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day (&NOW Books, 2020), a debut short story collection which won the 2018 Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer’s Residency Prize. Their debut poetry collection, Mask for Mask, is forthcoming from New Rivers Press in 2021. Scott has also authored two poetry chapbooks: FUNERALS & THRONES (Birds of Lace Press, 2013) and Night Errands (YellowJacket Press, 2012), which was the winner of the 2011 Peter Meinke Prize. Scott’s prose and poems has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Ninth Letter, Salt Hill, Sonora Review, The Pinch, Spoon River Poetry Review, Bayou, and elsewhere. Other writing has been featured in the Best American Experimental Writing and Best New Poets anthologies. Scott’s accolades include being awarded a Lambda Emerging LGBTQ Voices fellowship, attending the Poetry Foundation’s inaugural Poetry Incubator, and being awarded residencies at the Millay Colony, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, and Writers at the Eyrie. Scott holds an MFA from the University of Alabama, where they edited and designed for Black Warrior Review.

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