Friday, July 15, 2005
Fun with Submission Statistics
Fastest response via snail mail: Margie, 7 days (rejection)
Slowest response via snail mail: CutBank, 266 days (rejection)
Never responded via snail mail: Maize (including multiple queries)
Fastest response via e-mail: eye, <1 day (acceptance)
Slowest response via e-mail: Blue Moon Review, withdrew after 243 days and no responses to two queries
Never responded via e-mail: Southeast Review
Journal that excited me the most with the "nice" rejection plus ink: Shenandoah
Acceptance that caused me the most excitement: 32 Poems
Nicest and most helpful response to a query: Atlanta Review
Least helpful response to a query: California Quarterly (saying they had no record of my submission, then returning it to me a week later with ink and "please submit again")
Nicest response to withdrawing simultaneous submissions accepted elsewhere: (tie) Water~Stone & RHINO
Most poems of a five-poem submission withdrawn due to publication elsewhere: RHINO, 3
Submissions out (not counting places I don't expect to respond at this point): Smartish Pace, Atlanta Review, WSCLM (I'm not sure if the actual name will be something else, but it's a new Literary Magazine at Western State College in Gunnison), New Delta Review, Crab Orchard Review, Vox, Rattapallax, Ontario Review, Elixir, Two Rivers Review, Gargoyle, Many Mountains Moving, Louisville Review, Hudson Review, Pleiades, Southern Poetry Review, Hunger Mountain, Rattle, Florida Review, and Connecticut Review.
Speaking of all these stats, do you use Jeff Bahr's Submission Response Time Database? Have you submitted your own journal response data to it? If not, contact him. That tool is valuable and becomes even more so as more poets contribute to it. It's easy to do!
Slowest response via snail mail: CutBank, 266 days (rejection)
Never responded via snail mail: Maize (including multiple queries)
Fastest response via e-mail: eye, <1 day (acceptance)
Slowest response via e-mail: Blue Moon Review, withdrew after 243 days and no responses to two queries
Never responded via e-mail: Southeast Review
Journal that excited me the most with the "nice" rejection plus ink: Shenandoah
Acceptance that caused me the most excitement: 32 Poems
Nicest and most helpful response to a query: Atlanta Review
Least helpful response to a query: California Quarterly (saying they had no record of my submission, then returning it to me a week later with ink and "please submit again")
Nicest response to withdrawing simultaneous submissions accepted elsewhere: (tie) Water~Stone & RHINO
Most poems of a five-poem submission withdrawn due to publication elsewhere: RHINO, 3
Submissions out (not counting places I don't expect to respond at this point): Smartish Pace, Atlanta Review, WSCLM (I'm not sure if the actual name will be something else, but it's a new Literary Magazine at Western State College in Gunnison), New Delta Review, Crab Orchard Review, Vox, Rattapallax, Ontario Review, Elixir, Two Rivers Review, Gargoyle, Many Mountains Moving, Louisville Review, Hudson Review, Pleiades, Southern Poetry Review, Hunger Mountain, Rattle, Florida Review, and Connecticut Review.
Speaking of all these stats, do you use Jeff Bahr's Submission Response Time Database? Have you submitted your own journal response data to it? If not, contact him. That tool is valuable and becomes even more so as more poets contribute to it. It's easy to do!
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These are interesting AND fun. I can beat your slowest response easy: Pleiades, 366 days for a rejection. I'll never understand how it can take that long to decide whether you like a piece or not, even if 'you' is a roomful of editors.
I can beat both of you, but I can't name the journal due to the fact that they have a current batch of poems.
--grin--
--grin--
Yeah, I'm shocked that I haven't had someplace go longer than a year yet.
And Steve, I know how that goes. One of the things in this post was my way of cutting ties with a situation like that.
And Steve, I know how that goes. One of the things in this post was my way of cutting ties with a situation like that.
Steve, Steven,
I have all of that beat. Two submissions to Weber Studies: My first rejection took 18 months. Later, my fourth, took 63 weeks according to Jeff's page, where I record my submissions. I am not ashamed to say that I have one out to Heliotrope that has been out for 39 weeks, and still counting. I am looking forward to Margie's getting back to me.
Justin
I have all of that beat. Two submissions to Weber Studies: My first rejection took 18 months. Later, my fourth, took 63 weeks according to Jeff's page, where I record my submissions. I am not ashamed to say that I have one out to Heliotrope that has been out for 39 weeks, and still counting. I am looking forward to Margie's getting back to me.
Justin
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: July 17, 2005 2:48 PM
: July 17, 2005 2:48 PM
*blush* Well, we RHINOs are honored to have made the list.
I really need a better system for tracking my own submissions. I've finally stopped using sticky notes, but I am far from high tech in that department.
I really need a better system for tracking my own submissions. I've finally stopped using sticky notes, but I am far from high tech in that department.
Oh it's all good! We are actually somewhat organized as a journal, and I've done more than my share of withdrawals, so no trouble at all.
That's a great link! I finally organized my submission, acceptance, and 'still out' poems into an excel file since my paper folder was getting more confusing by the day, but didn't include date (though I still scribble that down). Yes, lots of variety. The most frustrating submissions are the ones where the journal has been chugging along for ages and then decides not to put out an issue for several times (I'm talking online here) and the poems sit.....and sit.
Going to add you to my links. Hope that's okay. Your blog is good.
Pris
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Going to add you to my links. Hope that's okay. Your blog is good.
Pris
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