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The packet included a sample Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope, a sample cover letter, a sample story, a sample email (for magazines who do accept email submissions), a sample submissions log (basically to keep track of what you’ve sent and where you’ve sent it to) and copies of the submissions guidelines from various magazines that accept stories, poetry and artwork from kids.<\/p>\n
After we talked about how to put your submission together, we read quotes from writers who have been successful but who are not strangers to rejection. \u00a0We discussed the advice these writers had about being resilient and persistent. \u00a0We learned that\u00a0getting published is often just a matter of luck, persistence, and reaching the eyes of the right editor.<\/p>\n
Then we talked about how painful it can still feel to be rejected, and how\u00a0writers can cope with that. \u00a0All writers get rejected! \u00a0So it was really important to me that the kids leave today’s workshop with some practical ideas for what to do when it happens to them. \u00a0The kids wrote letters to a friend who has been rejected, encouraging them to keep on trying. \u00a0(Well… first I said it was a letter to a friend, but they caught on pretty quick that the letters were really for them! \u00a0They’re too smart for me.)<\/p>\n
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