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June 13, 2008

Their own body bags

Nathan Whitlock writes that requiring self-addressed stamped envelopes to accompany literary journal submissions is “kind of like making soldiers go into battle carrying their own body bags”.

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Book Cover Definitely Thriving. Image of a woman in an upside down green bathtub surrounded by books. Text reads Definitely Thriving, A Novel, by Kerry Clare

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