Featured Withdrawals

I've noticed here at Phoebe we get quite a few withdrawals from authors who've had their stories and poems accepted elsewhere. This probably isn't rare; I expect it happens at other journals as well, but I thought it would be interesting to try to give those authors a public congratulations for their continuing success and point out where their new stories will be featured and/or printed (I feel sort of like it's a good thing to do, since we encourage simultaneous submissions after all).

So anyhow, I'll try to keep a running thing going and post these withdrawals (acceptances!) as they happen, or as we find out about them, so that you (our dear and few blog readers) can find these stories and poems, read them, and be happy.

(Our knowledge of these works will vary, depending on how far along they traveled in our review process)

Here are some that immediately come to mind:

• Amy Knox Brown sent along a wonderful story called "Why We Are The Way We Are" last year, and we wanted to print it for Fall 2007, but she withdrew it because the Beloit Fiction Journal had accepted it before we got to it. I tried to find out more at the journal's website, but there's little there to see. Here's a quick blurb I found online though. Pick up the hard copy to read her work.
• Luke Geddes recently withdrew a story from us. It was picked up by Wandering Army, an online journal. You can read it here.
• And finally, Carl Peterson withdrew a story that was picked up by DIAGRAM back in late winter.

That's all I've got, maybe we'll post some poems too.