u/MeltaBanana

Quick situation and looking for a gut check from people who've been here.

A while back I had a short piece published in an online lit journal. Later I expanded it into a full novel which a publisher is now picking up. They're asking me to take the original short story offline because of the overlap.

Just wanted to ask if this was the norm and if it's socially acceptable to request the journal to remove my work? It's a relatively small-ish purely digital journal if that matters (0 compensation too haha).

I heard that playing Thief 2 helps but isn't it on a totally different system than Thief 1 (which is what Black Parade runs on I believe)?

A recent flash fiction piece of mine made the longlist for SmokeLong Quarterly’s Award for Flash Fiction. The longlist was 52 pieces selected from about 1,200 entries.

I’ll be querying a verse novel soon (once I’ve revised it further), and I’m wondering whether this is the kind of credit worth mentioning in a query letter. I know it’s not a win or shortlist, and it’s for flash rather than a full-length work, but it does seem like a fairly selective placement.

Would agents see this as a legitimate writing credential worth one brief mention in the bio paragraph, or is it still too small/unrelated to matter for a verse novel query?

Going to leave this bad boy to simmer in my mind and come back to edit it before sending it off to agents after a week

it's a black card so i assumed so la

I heard EFA is a good start! But i'm open to other sites