Our spring issue should be arriving at my door any day now. This number has a little bit of everything—a ghost story, an essay of Goethe, Jane Austen's letters about the art of novel writing, poems about drunk parents and burning bodies, a little sci-fi, a little irony, two Graces (Metalious and Flandrau) and a Shady Dealings on the new MN poet laureate.
This three ring circus will have its premier at our issue release Saturday, April 19 at Merlin's Rest, a pub in South Mpls (3601 E. Lake St). 7pm. Come on down and raise a glass with us!
- Joel Van Valin
Monday, April 14, 2008
Submissions numbers
For the statistically-minded, here are a few hard numbers from Whistling Shade's submissions queue.
The last time our poetry editors met, I did an informal count of the submissions received and accepted. We accepted 5 poems out of 35 poets submitting. So, 1 in 7 odds are still pretty good. I don't have hard numbers for fiction, but the odds are more like 1 in 20. We get about an even volume of poetry vs. fiction submissions, but remember we publish 7 or 8 poems per issue, versus 3 or 4 stories.
Of course (as publishers are fond of saying) if your story or poem is a masterpiece, the odds of it being selected are nearing 100%.
The last time our poetry editors met, I did an informal count of the submissions received and accepted. We accepted 5 poems out of 35 poets submitting. So, 1 in 7 odds are still pretty good. I don't have hard numbers for fiction, but the odds are more like 1 in 20. We get about an even volume of poetry vs. fiction submissions, but remember we publish 7 or 8 poems per issue, versus 3 or 4 stories.
Of course (as publishers are fond of saying) if your story or poem is a masterpiece, the odds of it being selected are nearing 100%.
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