| Author | Message | ||
| Emusing
Senior Member Username: emusing Post Number: 6492 Registered: 08-2003 |
A friend sent me the following link which loosely grades print journals according to their competitive ranking. There are no ezines here that I am aware of as this list's focus is on print journals only. Hope will be helpful. Certainly helps to give one the odds.... http://www.thejohnfox.com/bookfox/ranking-of-literary-journ.html x e Word Walker Press; Moonday Poetry; Kyoto Journal "All you who are dreamers too, help me make our world anew." --Langston Hughes | ||
| ~M~
Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 31442 Registered: 11-1998 |
Thanks for posting this link, E. Fun to look through the list and see who got ranked where. As I always tell others, and keep reminding myself, it's like the lottery -- you can't win if you don't enter. And the worst they can do is say NO! Hell, I've heard NO! before. Every time you hear it gets less and less surprising, less and less frightening. So, play the odds. And sometimes even bet on a longshot. There really is nothing to lose, except the cost of some stamps for those who still require snail mail submissions. If people died from rejection, I would have been gone a long time ago. *grin* Love, M | ||
| Emusing
Senior Member Username: emusing Post Number: 6493 Registered: 08-2003 |
It's good to hear that dearheart. I know I have to toughen up. I have just begun to submit in earnest. A rejection feels like a shot in the heart so it's good to know my bullet proof shield will self generate given a little time. Your persistence is proof enough that taking the time to work a poem pays bigger dividends. When I read the caliber of the work that is on the higher end sites it really brings the whole game into a different perspective. Anyone who desires publication in these journals or wishes to build a "resume" of publications for a manuscript or chapbook must read and confront the level of craft in published works. I'm not saying it's all good by a long shot, even in the best journals but more often than not, I am impressed with all the poetics that went into making a particular work worthy of acceptance. Love, e Word Walker Press; Moonday Poetry; Kyoto Journal "All you who are dreamers too, help me make our world anew." --Langston Hughes | ||
| Fred Longworth
Senior Member Username: sandiegopoet Post Number: 4469 Registered: 05-2006 |
I admit . . . I do bristle when the rejection letter begins, "Dear Poet -- How dare you?!" | ||
| ~M~
Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 31445 Registered: 11-1998 |
Hey, Freddie -- at least that's better than, "We have you surrounded. Put down the pen and come out with your hands up . . ." Love, M | ||
| Alicia Ellen Matheny
Member Username: magdalenesunset Post Number: 59 Registered: 07-2008 |
Hi Fred, I've had rejection letters too, but not anything as hateful as what you mentioned. Most of mine have been like "We like your work, but cannot publish it at this time. But consider submitting to us again." But I know: it still can hurt. Alicia |
