Welcome!
Hello and welcome to Send My Love to Anyone!
It’s good to have you here!
I started Send My Love to Anyone in 2021 when I was experiencing writer’s block and I wanted a way to connect with other writers, and it worked. Writing about the writing process and sharing the work of others got me out of my rut. I wrote my book, and I have made so many cherished connections with other writers and readers in the process.
Over the past four years, Send My Love to Anyone has become not only a personal newsletter but also a literary site and community on all things writing with writing prompts, craft essays, excerpts, resources, and more.
I have a particular interest in small or independent presses, writing that is funny, absurd, or bleak, and writing that intersects human rights, collective liberation, anti-oppression, and the climate crisis.
I hope you will consider becoming part of this community.
Subscriptions
As a free subscriber you’ll receive
my thoughts on writing, the writing process & other troubles, short craft and anti-craft essays, and my own works-in-progress, stories, and poetry
writing prompts (some of my favourites from over 23 years of teaching creative writing)
literary, publishing, and screenwriting resources
a regular column by
(author of she and Poetry is Queer) called The First Timeoriginal essays, fiction, poetry, and sometimes art by guest authors
recommended readings and viewings
excerpts of new and forthcoming books often by small/independent press writers and other favs
As a paying subscriber you’ll receive
all of the above
paid-subscriber only comments and Q&As
access to the writing prompt comments where you can share your own work with the SMLTA community
17% discount on the monthly subscription rate
knowledge that you are supporting writers with shared values and the small press and independent press community
Note: Money raised through paid subscriptions goes to paying for original unpublished writing.
All subscribers receive
one to two emails per month eight months a year.
You can unsubscribe from SMLTA at anytime.
Join the Conversation
I would love to hear a little about you and your writing?
Past Contributors
Past contributors include Saeed Teebi, Emily Austin, Jen Sookfong Lee, Mary Lou Zeitoun, Deborah Dundas, Kim, Fu, Lynne Tillman, Lisa Robertson, Rebecca Fisseha, Jessica Johnson, Chelene Knight, Gary Barwin, Farzana Doctor, Kirby, Carrianne Leung, June Pak, Khashayar Mohammadi and more. You can access these guest posts and interviews via the Send My Love to Anyone archive.
Send My Love to Anyone Sections
There are several sections to the website, but you only receive two emails a month (I don’t like to flood inboxes): one email for the Gatherings section, and one for the Send My Love to Anyone issue, which is a round up these various sections.
Send My Love to Anyone, guests posts of excerpts from published works or original unpublished fiction, nonfiction, or poetry
Gatherings, a curated list of readings, viewings, calls, news, and more
The First Time, a regular column by KIRBY (author of Poetry Is Queer and She)
Ignore Me, musings, fiction, poems, videos, and essays by Kathryn Mockler
Words Count, a section on writing, craft, anti-craft, rule-breaking, and surviving and navigating the literary and publishing world
Send My Love to Books and Films, a new books and film review section
Where Do I Start? writing prompts for any genre
Poetry from guest poets
Fiction from guest fiction writers
Onion Man 2.0, a podcast serialization of my first book, Onion Man, an autofictional novel-in-verse about living in an alcoholic home and working at a corn canning factory in the 1980s. It deals with issues of addition, bodily autonomy, intimate partner violence, class, and the environment.
Submissions
SMLTA does not accept unsolicited submissions of poetry or fiction at this time. But check back for occasional calls.
Honorariums for original unpublished works
Note: SMLTA does not pay for excerpts of published works or interviews.
Capsule Reviews (200-400 words) - $25 - Short pieces describing a book you loved.
Poetry and Microfiction (under 1000 words) - $75
Fiction, Nonfiction (between 1000-1500+ words) - $75-125
Artwork - $75-$125 (depending on number of images or length)
Words Count (craft essays under 500-800 words) - $75
Reviews* (800-1200 words) - $125-150
*I am interested in analytical reviews of books or films or art.
About Me
As a writer
Kathryn Mockler is the author of the story collection Anecdotes (Book*hug Press, 2023) which which won the Victoria Butler Book Prize, and was a finalist for the 2024 Trillium Book Award, the 2024 Danuta Gleed Literary Award, the 2024 Fred Kerner Award, and the VMI Besty Warland Between Genres Award. She is also the author of five books of poetry and several short films and experimental videos.
She co-edited the print anthology Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis (Coach House Books, 2020) and she runs Send My Love to Anyone, a literary newsletter, which was a Substack featured publication in 2023. She is an associate professor in the Writing Department at the University of Victoria where she teaches screenwriting and fiction.
As an editor and publisher
Kathryn Mockler has been publishing and editing online literary journals since 2011. She published The Rusty Toque from 2011 to 2017, was the Canada Editor of Joyland: a hub for short fiction from 2013-2020, and was the publisher of Watch Your Head, an online literary journal that published writing and art about the climate crisis and climate justice from 2019-2023.
What readers of Anecdotes are saying
“Through her vulnerable, honest, and unsentimental characters, Mockler holds a mirror to a world damaged by misogyny and capitalist apathy, while still maintaining hope and compassion for humans and the planet we live on.” —2024 Victoria Butler Book Prize, Jury Notes (Susan Sanford Blades, Susan Braley, Iain Higgins)
"More than mere Anecdotes, Kathryn Mockler delivers a kaleidoscope of compressed, heartbreaking, and hilariously vivid scenes from our age of anxiety.” —2024 VMI Besty Warland Between Genres Award Judge's Note, Stephen Collis
"Innovative and risk-taking, Kathryn Mockler’s Anecdotes is a kaleidoscopic exploration of the possibilities of short fiction. From meta-fiction to flash, from one-liners to anecdotes, this book is bold and disruptive.” —2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award, Jury Notes (Danila Botha, paulo da costa and Souvankham Thammavongsa)
Contact Info
Mailing Address for ARCs or Books
Kathryn Mockler, Department of Writing University of Victoria, PO Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria BC, V8W 2Y2, Canada - From August to April.
Due to volume, I may not be able to respond to all requests.
Send My Love to Anyone operates on unceded Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Esquimalt) and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples territory.
Visit The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to learn about the residential school system.
Giving Back
20% of the revenue from paid subscriptions for Send My Love to Anyone is donated to organizations whose values I share and respect.
This year it’s RAVEN, an organization that supports Indigenous Justice by raising legal defence funds for Indigenous Peoples in Canada to defend rights and the integrity of lands and cultures and Human Concern International, the oldest Muslim relief organization in Canada, fighting poverty for over 40 years.
Send My Love to Anyone Established
January 2021
Publisher
Kathryn Mockler
© Copyright 2025 | Send My Love to Anyone
