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%.