We spoke with Lilly Dancyger, writer, editor of Narratively, and creator of Memoir Monday, a weekly newsletter and monthly reading series co-curated by Narratively, Catapult, Granta, Guernica, The Rumpus, Longreads and Tin House. She has bylines all over town, a great sense of where to find the best fun in NYC (hint: it involves tens of thousands of people dressed up as sea creatures), and an anthology of women's anger called BURN IT DOWN coming out with Seal Press in 2019.

If you've ever wondered what the literary life is like in NYC, Lilly is living it--and we love her reflections on deadlines, publication timelines, submissions, and success after rejection, too.

Follow Lilly (who is wonderful on twitter) @lillydancyger. You can submit to Narratively (please do your research!) at http://narrative.ly/contribute/, and subscribe to Memoir Monday (a truly wonderful collection of writing from amazing publications) for free at Narrative.ly/memoir-monday.