Letter from the Editors

Dear Friends,

We are very excited for the reception Inklings Journal received two weeks ago for its debut. We have 16 blogspot follows and a fan page on Facebook that is growing! We also have a design brewing to pumpkin-spice-latte up the visual aspect of this blog (how excited is everyone for Starbucks' holiday drinks?!)

However (in bad paragraph starting form), we have had fewer submissions than expected! Some of you are brilliant writers and we know because we have seen proof of it (whether you are willing to agree or not). This blog is a bit of a stretch for us too (especially Katy), but through sharing we all become better and more confident writers. Katy and I are already benefiting from this by workshopping our old poems together and we'd love for you to be a part of that too.

If you are worried about posting something here that you may want to publish formally elsewhere in the future (because often publications require unpublished work, including online) we would like to publicly state that while we are looking for serious work, our ultimate goal is to share, test, and workshop poetry rather than to publish it. Basically, we're not going to retain any rights to your submissions--they will be yours as yours can be. So if that was holding you back, no need to be concerned anymore!

Also as a reminder, we would love if you would send in your favorite poems (known, unknown, whoever) so we can post them during the week.  We are both really enjoying the way this blog is causing us to read more, find more wonderful lines and have a place to share them with each other and with you. The more people involved in that, the better!

All submissions go to inklingsjournal@gmail.com :)



Katy & Megan

P.S. Yes, we are long-winded; that is who we are (and we like parentheses)! Don't forget to read Donald Hall's beautiful poem below.