Wednesday, August 12, 2020

I Never Know What Editors Want

A journal accepted my work, so I sent more poems over last month. They were rejected. It happens, but the editor surprised me saying they prefer narrative work.

The poem of mine they published of mine? I wouldn't have called it a narrative work at all.

Yesterday, I sent two poems over to a journal that specifically publishes narrative pieces.

One was accepted. The other, which I was really hoping they'd take, was not.

Follow up comment to the rejection piece: "confuses me...not very narrative."

Even when I know what they want, I never know what to give them.

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