[New-Poetry] Electronic Submissions

[amy king]

Open electronic submissions can be debilitating, if one is not careful.  MiPOesias allowed these for awhile; I became overwhelmed.  I had to get assistants, and what began as a labor of love became a labor.  I found that many people did not read the magazine before submitting.  I rec'd a range that included poetry I wouldn't look at cross-eyed, even some cowboy poetry.  If many of the submitters had read even two or three poets I was publishing at the time of open submissions, it would have likely cut my submissions in half.  

I can't really compare the volume with what a print editor receives (and I'm sure their volume depends on each journal's recognition), but I believe a good number of poets simply search online for poetry magazines accepting submissions online or by email, enter the site through the submissions page, and send their work in without ever dipping into the site itself.  

I know that 9th Letter has just switched over, but I also believe they must have loads of interns from the college reading the submissions.  I submitted one week and rec'd a rejection within days -- that's some quick turnover for a major journal with online submissions.  I have read 9th Letter, but I wonder now how many submissions they receive by poets who have never laid eyes on the work they publish in print.

As for the printing out bit, I did sometimes, but mostly to re-read the work I was considering for acceptance.  It's easier to read through subs while online and send the rejections out directly since the email addresses are already available.  I'm not sure if that means I spent less time with subs than a print editor though.  

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----- Original Message ----
From: Jeff Newberry <jeff.newberry at gmail.com>
To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &, Views" <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:46:23 PM
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Electronic Submissions

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 
http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/ 
http://opusforty.blogspot.com/ 
 
The moral is this: in American verse, 
The better you are, the pay is worse. 
 --Corey Ford 
 
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