The world is full of paper. Write to me. ~Agha Shahid Ali, "Stationery"

Many writers have a complicated relationship with the postcard. At some point you encounter a writing fellowship or contest that requires you to include a self-addressed stamped postcard (the dreaded SASP) to notify you that your application has been received or if it has been rejected. There is a certain kind of poetic cruelty in receiving a rejection addressed to you in your own…