Has anyone noticed that it has gotten immeasurably tougher
to get a single poem published in a literary journal? Over dinner with a bunch
of poets, the Steiny Road Poet raised the problem and the overall agreement is
that Submittable, the electronic system that helps literary journals and
publishing house with online submissions, has exponentially increased
competition.
One poet in that discussion said that what she is doing is
looking for journals that are not using Submittable. She figures that these
journals are getting fewer submissions which increases her chance of being
published.
Another poet that evening said his tactic is to blitz—he
sends out the same poems to different magazines maybe as many as 100 times.
Yes, he has to send out a lot of withdraw letters when a poem is accepted but
he is getting poems accepted. He also said it doesn’t matter if the publisher
takes a long time.
Poets who show up in the literary arena and stay visible
sometimes are solicited for poems. So Steiny thinks the only answer is to work
harder and faster in submitting work.
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