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Date Posted: 14:52:49 08/29/06 Tue GMT-5
Author: DianeG
Author Host/IP: Toronto-HSE-ppp3691937.sympatico.ca / 65.95.76.84
Subject: Re: To hell with them - and with "obscure" writing, too
In reply to: linda 's message, "Re: To hell with them - Agreed" on 11:27:54 08/29/06 Tue GMT-5

Linda,

I think you are right about some journals. The people who start them don't know what to do when they get too may submissions.If they have too many, why not close submissions until they clear out the backlog? And, I've also noticed that some writing which I find, not only obscure, but also just plain bad, seems to make it into print.

I guess the only solution is too keep plodding on and to make multiple submissions.

DianeG
>>I think many journals/magazines, literary and
>otherwise, start with great intentions. When they are
>flooded with work, they pick people they know...I
>think. Sometimes I think the work has to be really
>obscure or perhaps I am too dumb and plot driven to
>understand. (I think I think too much in this last
>paragraph.
>So to hell with them is great!! Find the people that
>appreciate your work. Even a rejection is recognition
>that the piece was read---not left to languish on a
>desk or worse to make its way to the landfill.
>Linda
>
>Thanks Lori,
>>
>>Time to round up my strays and head'em in another
>>direction.
>>
>>Diane
>>
>>>You don't need to wait anymore. To hell with them. I
>>>think that more and more journals are taking years to
>>>respond, if they ever do. Why? They're probably
>>>swamped. But who cares why? I say give them six
>months
>>>and then send it out again. You have only one life to
>>>live, after all.
>>>
>>>Right now I have stuff at the one year mark or more
>>>with Maisonneuve, The Wascana Review, Literal Latte
>>>and Room of One's Own. But the stories have been
>>>making the rounds elsewhere, too. Can't wait for
>these
>>>people, whatever their problems are.
>>>
>>>Here's a few I've nver had trouble with: The
>>>Fiddlehead, The Prairie Journal, The Antigonish
>>>Review, Grain and PRISM. Probably because I mostly
>get
>>>rejections from them, but still. At least they
>answer.
>>>
>>>Good luck elsewhere, Diane!
>>>
>>>Lori
>>>
>>>>I sent a short story to Other Voices in July of last
>>>>year. No response yet. I sent an e-mail to them
>about
>>>>three weeks ago, no response yet.
>>>>
>>>>Now I see that O.V. is running a contest and while
>>>>there are great prizes, I don't think I'll enter.
>>>>
>>>>Why send both a story AND money into the great maw
>>and
>>>>hear nothing?
>>>>
>>>>Guess maybe I'll send them a please consider my
>story
>>>>withdrawn letter. They won't answer that either, I
>>>bet.
>>>>
>>>>So, I'm grumbling, but O.V. can just bite me if they
>>>>happen to see this. Yeah, like that could happen.
>>>>
>>>>Diane

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Lots of obscure out there, but... -- Lori, 16:32:28 08/29/06 Tue GMT-5