[New-Poetry] Electronic Submissions

[Jeff Newberry]

Any editors on the list wish to comment on this?

Jeff

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:09 PM, <millb at aol.com> wrote:

> I think, that a lot of magazines fear they will be overwhelmed by
> submissions if they switch to online.  Also, my guess is that, even with
> online submissions, editors will STILL print out and distribute the work via
> hard copy paper, so, the burden is with the editors or student assistants to
> print out submissions for round table discussion.  At least these are the
> concerns I have heard about.
>
> Mill
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
> Sent: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 8:53 am
> Subject: [New-Poetry] Electronic Submissions
>
> Just got a rejection note from Crazyhorse, which was odd since I haven't
> submitted anything to them in a couple of years, but that's not what I'm
> writing about. Also on the note was the information that they are going
> toward an all-email policy for submissions.
>
> >From their website:
>
> Please consider submitting your manuscript online rather than mailing it.
> Submitting a manuscript online eliminates paper and postage costs, logs the
> receipt of your manuscript automatically, and allows you to withdraw or
> replace a manuscript as you wish.
>
> Why aren't more magazines doing this, and doing it for those exact
> reasons?
>
> -- Tad Richards
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