I used to do this on Twitter, but I’ll put it here again this year. These mitchnobis.com posts are getting only a few views, so I might not keep up the blog function on the website. That said, it’s kind of useful as a tool for myself to find my links, though, so who knows? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The pattern: I submitted a lot in 2022, some were accepted but held until 2023, and then I submitted much less in 2023. I still lucked out and got pieces in incredible publications, so that’s pretty cool. Things came out early and late with nothing from late spring to early fall.

This year also saw new fiction from me for the first time in two years! Which I found kind of funny because I started with fiction but parenthood’s short chunks of personal time led me to focus more on poetry. C’est la vie, I love them both. (C’est la vie is fancy for whatever.) If I ever have to write an academic piece again, though, I’ll be starting from scratch. My brain doesn’t do that anymore, I don’t think.

Anyway, here are my publications (and other literary activities) from 2023:

POETRY

1. The big news is nothing to read yet, but my poetry collection Beginning to Sense was picked up by ELJ Editions and is slated to publish in November of 2025. I like to joke that I hope we still have books (and a generally functional society) then, but, um, I’m not always sure how much I’m joking. Cool news either way. (And there are still two manuscripts making the rounds, so if the universe wants to be funny and have another book come out before then, that’s an option. Just saying.) On with 2023 poetry publications….
2. Two poems in issue #7 of Paddler Press
3. Two poems in issue #7 of The Under Review (Huzzah for sports literature!)
4. The wonderful Lee Potts started Stone Circle Review and published “They Ask Questions.”
5. My 4th skull: “Life Plays up on You, or, a Gary Payton Ars Poetica, or, Dream Shake the Ghosts” on HAD
6. “To Sparrows” in Bear Review
7. Blue Mountain Review’s May 2023 issue reprinted my poem “Leaves,” originally published in The Night Heron Barks.
8. The amazing Kirsti MacKenzie started Major 7th Magazine and published “‘I Go to Work’ by Kool Moe Dee.”
9. In one of the cooler things to happen with my writing, UCity Review published a set of 12 of my poems here. You essentially get a chapbook at one link.
10. Hey, just heard I have another HAD skull on the way! I’ll edit to add it if it goes up before Jan. 1st.
11. HEY! It published on December 26th, and here it is: “Bourbon in a Santa Mug.”
12. There are poems forthcoming in Louisiana Literature and Pidgeonholes that I think are coming in 2024. If they publish later this month, then pretend I included them here. Time is weird. C’est la vie.

FICTION

1. “How Many Times We Pray” in Psaltery & Lyre: Some loved ones had to flee the ’21 Marshall Fire in Colorado, & it appears I processed my worrying by fictionalizing the evacuation. My brother-in-law really was separate in an RV. I made up the rest. (They got out safely, by the way.)

NONFICTION

1. “Buckets,” an essay in How to Write a Novel, ed. by Aaron Burch, available from Autofocus Books

WNS & NAWP

1. Seasons 6 and 7 of Wednesday Night Sessions went up on KickstART Farmington’s YouTube page, so please check out the 10 great writers included there.* I might not be a great host (most of these are recorded when I’m in frazzled parent mode), but the guests are all amazing. It’s always an incredible experience getting to talk with them.
2. *Jared Beloff, Patrick Nevins, Sandra Newman, Diane Seuss, Ralph Jenkins, Jane Zwart, Andrew Collard, Ajanae Dawkins, Peter Markus, and Tommye Blount
3. NAWP! For years, I made jokes about not being able to get to the AWP writers conference and said I was at “Not at AWP (NAWP)” instead. Then my friend Jared Beloff joined in, but he’s smart and said let’s make it a real thing, so we did and co-founded NAWP. Huge shout-out to Jared for having the brains and big ideas to do cool things. Here is the Twitter and here is the Bluesky for NAWP. Also, here is the Instagram for it, but I do not understand Instagram. Anyway, we held monthly online readings for most of 2023, and in 2024 we’re looking to keep that going but also make things a bit more concrete with a website and more (and maybe this?). Stay tuned & get NAWPy.

Last, I give a thousand thanks to all editors who enjoyed my work and put it out there and to any of you who read any or all of it. You’re amazing. I received a great, random email through my website earlier this year, so I know there’s at least one of you reading. Thanks!