Who me? What? Where?

I submitted a short memoir piece to a literary e-zine a few months ago. Friday morning, I woke in the wee hours thinking I ought to go check the site out because I hadn't heard anything and knew their current issue released last week. I hadn't really thought of it for several weeks and was curious what pieces they selected instead of mine.

Imagine my suprise when I went to their news blog from July 9, scrolled down the page, and saw my name and title in their announcement of the new issue's contents.

I booked on over to the e-zine and sure enough, there it was. I've been floating around for a few days feeling all bubbly and such, and realized tonight I should probably blog about it!

So, check it out ...

Perigee: Publication for the Arts

Click on "Current issue" at the bottom of the page, then "Memoir" on the left, and then my story is ...

Final Sale on Tires by Julie Layne. (It comes up in Flash--hope you have it)

This certainly can't hurt on the query letters. Whee! Perigee has had several Pushcart prize nominees, design awards, and various other honors in their six-year history, many recently, so I feel honored and humbled to have a simple story about my Grandma and her influence on me appear in the pages of this issue.