Post by Will DockeryPost by W.DockeryPost by Michael PendragonPost by W.DockeryPost by Michael PendragonPost by Will DockeryPlaygrounds Magazine / April 2012
Published on Mar 31, 2014
https://issuu.com/willdockery/docs/042012playgroundsall
Playgrounds Magazine / April 2012 issue.
Page 18: To The Magic Store, column by Will Dockery
Page 18 "She Came From Overseas", poem by Will Dockery
Page 9: Hogbottom poster
Wrapped fish.
Like I said, Playgrounds Magazine had a circulation of 10,000
copies e
very month for
Post by W.DockeryPost by Michael PendragonPost by W.Dockeryalmost twenty years, Pendragon.
You can't top my achievement, nor can anyone else here on the
poetry g
roup.
Post by W.DockeryPost by Michael PendragonPost by W.DockeryThus, your jealousy is unbecoming.
HTH and HAND.
It was a free paper listing local restaurants, bars, and garage bands.
Among other articles.
No kidding.
I've seen papers like that in every city I've ever visited.
Better quality writing too. Hell, growing up I had the free local
*neighborhood* paper[1] about 5 minutes away. Want ads were cheap but
anyone could get a column or an article published in it if they wanted.
Post by Will DockeryThe articles are filler for the ads.
Exactly. The whole point was businesses and ads to support it.
Post by Will DockeryThe main reason anyone picks up a copy is to see what restaurant to go
to for dinner, or to see what bands are at what bars, or which bars
cater to their kind of crowd.
actual newpaper writers.
Post by Will DockeryGetting published in a *literary journal* gets your writing before
other writers, and people who read journals *specifically* for the
poetry.
An indie journal that prints only 100 copies is more valuable to one
as a writer, than having their work appear in local ad papers.
Normally I wouldn't dismiss the accomplishment of getting published in
*any* publication; but your simultaneously arrogant and delusional
boasts about it make it almost a necessity.
You claim that you're a fan of Robert Pinsky (I doubt that you've read
any of his work, but let's pretend that you are).
I corresponded with Mr. Pinsky, and received his permission to publish
excerpts from his translation of the "Inferno" in my "Bible of Hell."
Not only is it an honor to have my work appear alongside of his in
that collection, but there's a good chance that Mr. Pinsky has read
some of my work as well.
""The Bible of Hell" was reviewed (positively) in "The Year's Best
Fantasy and Horror," and, as editor-publisher-author, I was mentioned.
And "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror" was a major publication which
published stories and poems for the top authors in the horror and
fantasy genres, so my name was potentially seen by writers like
Stephen Kind and Ursula K. LeGuin (both of whom have been published in
it).
I don't remember the exact numbers for "The Bible of Hell's" print
run, but it was somewhere between 200 and 350 copies. That's a far
cry from your ad paper's 10,000 copies, but those 200-350 copies
accomplished a lot more than "Playgrounds" ever did.
And that was just one of my projects.
sportsmanlike and gracious manner.
[1] It was partially funded by the local Businessman's Association. As
the businesses fled the city or closed, so went the local paper. So I'm