As we ease into March (and Spring Training), we find ourselves in the final stretch of our reading period, which ends March 15th. Here’s Senior Associate Editor Matt O’Keefe offering up some play-by-play on submissions patterns he’s noticed over the years. Matt O’Keefe: Six to three to one. What is that? A somewhat decisive community council vote? One of your rarer …
In which an enterprising stranger wanders into our office . . .
Two of them. Sensible in nature (at least to us). First, as of January 1, 2016, we will no longer consider hard-copy submissions. By that we mean submissions on paper, sent through snail mail. We get so few now, it’s easy to overlook them. We have to remind each other to glance at that teeny …
As at least 227 of you have already figured out, we’re open for business—the business of reading, that is. Send us your love letters, your manifestos, your toenail-clipping guides, all those narratives and nonce sonnets yearning for life on the published page. We’re ready to receive your words. You can access our ever-so-easy-to-use online submission …
First, the bad news: The end is nigh! Apocalypses may fail to materialize, but the end of our regular reading period has arrived with a vengeance. Any manuscript postmarked after today will be burned, eaten, excreted, and then burned again by the four horsemen of late-submission annihilation. Maybe they are actually deadline-driven copy editors on …
Just for kicks, here is a list of trends that we’ve been noticing in our submission stacks lately: Stories set in the 50s and 60s: It’s fun to insist that this is due to the popularity of Madmen, even if it’s not true. Stories about ghosts: And we published one of these—Micah Riecker’s “The Drowned …
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