Poets and Writers

THE PRACTICAL WRITER Submit That Manuscript!

- By joey franklin

Why sending out your work is so important.

JOEY FRANKLIN ’s first book, My Wife Wants You to Know I’m Happily Married, won the 2015 Associatio­n of Mormon Letters book prize for nonfiction and was a finalist for the 2016 Utah Book Award. His essays have appeared in the Writer’s Chronicle, Ninth Letter, the Normal School, Gettysburg Review, and many other publicatio­ns. He teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and is currently at work on a memoir about the saints and scoundrels hiding in his family tree.

You can find him online at joeyfrankl­in.com.

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