Thursday, March 21, 2013

Queries

Is the Fall/Winter 2012 issue ever coming?

Yes.  Yes, it is.  We have sent copies to all the contributors as of March 15th.  If you should have gotten a copy but didn't, please let us know.  If you'd like to purchase a copy, send us a check for $10.

But if the Fall/Winter 2012 issue is out, what happened to the poems I sent last July?  Are they doomed?  I haven't heard anything!

That is our fault.  We are very sorry.  We were overloaded this year with both submissions and obligations.  But the good news is, your poems are not doomed!  At least, not yet.

Technically, we have deadlines for regular submissions. We would like to read all the September 1-February 28th/29th submissions for consideration for the Spring/Summer issues, and all the March 1st-August 31stsubmissions for consideration for the Fall/Winter issues. Sometimes, however, we read something that’s come in late, and it just fits perfectly into the previous issue, which we are in the process of formatting. So we add it. Sometimes, we fall behind. And so at the moment—with sincere apologies to those who are still waiting—we are considering all the submissions from last summer (and earlier) for the Spring/Summer issue.

What about the Poetry Contest?

Our contest deadline for the 14th Annual Poetry Contest has officially passed, and we are reading the entries in the first round. 

But if you're reading the poetry contest entries, what about the poems I sent in earlier?

We're reading those, too.  Sometimes one editor will like a poem that another editor isn't thrilled about, and then we wait to hear from the third....  The poems we don't like get the fastest action, ironically.  Poems we do like tend to take more time.