Showing posts with label freeze frame fiction. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 16, 2015

Writers Beware: The Seven Deadly Submission Sins, or what NOT to send to this magazine editor

This essay is reprinted from freeze frame fiction with its permission and that of the author, Nathaniel Tower.


APRIL 13, 2015

Things I’m tired of seeing in lit mag submissions

By NATHANIEL TOWER
Managing Editor
Bartleby Snopes Literary Magazine


An editor of a literary magazine has to put up with a fair amount. Among the struggles we must face on our daily quest for literary greatness is repetition. I’m not simply talking about the monotony of reading submissions. Rather, I’m referring to the fact that, at times, it feels like every submission is exactly the same.

When lit mag editors are asked what frustrates them the most about submissions, the responses are typically the same: submissions that don’t follow guidelines, submissions riddled with typos, submissions