1/ from january to august 2022, got at least 12 poetry acceptances every month on the average, by publications including poetry daily, the muse, meniscus lit j, quadrant, spindrift lit mag, j of new jersey poets, kansas city voice, mpqr, poetry in canada, poetry ni+, among others;
2/ between dec 24, 2021 and march 21, 2022, finished drafting, in a writing spree never experienced before, my very first novel, a hybrid or cultural trilogy in english, at least 700 words every day without taking a single day off, more than 130,000 words in total, inspired by an old schoolmate, much to my own surprise;
3/ early this year malahat review conducted a written interview with me about my 'bilinguacultural' poem at http://www.malahatreview.ca/interviews/yuan_interview.html, which this prestigious canadian magazine had nominated for canada's 45th national magazine awards (poetry category), and which was later featured in poetry daily on march 11, at https://poems.com/poem/yin-yang-vs-water-fire-lesson-one-in-chinese-characters/;
4/ since april, have written six short stories, a genre i've never worked with before even in my mother tongue chinese, inspired by the same person who inpsired me to write the trilogy. amazingly, one of them has already appeared in a uk-based magazine known as aloka, another accepted by a canadian magazine, both to my own happy surprise. and a third just published the following day after i sent my sub over about a week ago;
5/ on may 5, successfully released our annual anthology poetry pacific (2022 edition) in three different forms, respectively at
5/ got my 12th poetry book all my crows publsihed by cold river press, available at lnkd.in/gPPFmyfm;
6/ got my 13th poetry book e.dening [a love story in poems] published by the seattle-based goldfish press on june 1, available at lnkd.in/gPGwupbB;
7/ got my 14th poetry book homelanding, a bilingual (english-chinese) edition of a collection including 50 poems about the life of a chinese diaspora, published by yakima, wa-based cave moon press, available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BB1JBS37/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_6P0FS0WWT1E6G90BNGD2
8/ got my 15th poetry collection sinosaur, consisting of 120 bilingual-cultural poems, officially accepted by a americal college press in august for publication no later than next spring;
9/ accepted a chapbook by an american russian professor for publication in the fall;
yes, since my biguan (or retreat) at the end of last year, i've been extremely busy writing poetry and fiction while working part time as a produce clerk. if 2020 was my year of bilinguacultural poetry, 2021 was my year of love poetry; 2022 has definitely been my year of long and short fiction. fortunately, i've had some breakthrough annually in recent years, thanks as much to the pandemic as to someone particularly important to me. hope to live so reasonably well as to be able to write more and/or get more published before my final exit from this world, though my poetic or fictional work never sells...
