Editor Interview: cahoodaloodaling

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Raquel Thorne: PANK Magazine, Unbound Content, A cappella Zoo, Poetry, tinywords, flipped eye publishing, The Los Angeles Review, Southern Humanities Review, Yorick Magazine, Your Daily Poem, CavanKerry Press, Words Dance, BWR, Blue Begonia Press, Toadlily, Rattle, VOLT (to name a few)
Kate Hammerich: vox poetica, Third Wednesday, The Kenyon Review, Glitterwolf, The Legendary

Raquel Thorne: Poetry - Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes, Pablo Neruda, Yehuda Amichai, Maxine Kumin, Heather Bell, d.a. levy, Eireann Corrigan, Ovid, Joan Cusack Handler, Elizabeth Austen, Warsan Shire, Valerie Wohlfeld, Pamela Gemin
Prose - Jim Butcher, Kim Harrison, Jeannette Winterson, Richard Beard, Jacqueline Carey, Brent Weeks, Linda Gray Sexton, Marjorie Agosín
Rachel Nix: Poetry - Andrew Glaze, Pamela Gemin, Amber Tamblyn, Mary Oliver, Ava Leavell Haymon, Shane Koyczan, Nikky Finney, Joy Harjo, Carol Ann Duffy, Linda Pastan
Kate Hammerich: Poetry - Adrienne Rich, Eireann Corrigan, d.a. levy, Brian Andreas, Ted Hughes, Pablo Neruda, Wanda Lea Brayton, Saul Williams
Prose - Jeanette Winterson, Robin McKinley, Stephen King

Our issues are theme or style based (please check our current calls for submissions) and have their own individual guest editor, so each of our issues has a different feel. If our current submission calls don't speak to you, check back or email us to let us know what you'd like to see in the future.

Read our submission guidelines. Have a question about a submission call? Email us.
Please have patience. We are a small operation and do not get to checking the inbox daily. Also, since we use guest editors, we wait to make final decisions on submissions until after our submission period has ended. Depending on when you submit, it may take several months for a definitive response. Feel free to query if you're afraid we've missed your submission 2 weeks prior to an issue's publication date (listed on our call for submissions page.)

One that follows our guidelines. I cannot stress this enough: if you send us a submission without properly formatting the subject line, it may go to our spam folder.
We prefer to have a contributor photo, but it is not required. We also prefer cover letters, and are more likely to provide feedback to submitters who engage us, but they are not required.

I will decline anybody who obviously hasn't read the submission guidelines. We can tell. (I'm looking at you kid, the one who sent me and 10 other publications your submission at the same time. While I appreciate being associated with such fine publications, it is unprofessional to not tailor your submission to each publication.)
That being said, if you submit to us and you forget something (your bio, your picture, whatever) please feel free to send another email with whatever was missing prior and a quick note. Mistakes happen.
Also: We are perfectly fine with you sending a follow-up email with changes to your work. We will judge your newest version. Just please clearly indicate that this is what you're doing.

We do not require a cover letter, but I am more likely to give a personal rejection to a submission with a cover letter. Generally our submissions are compiled by me and read blindly by our staff and our guest editor. As such, previous publications don't matter to us; however, if you have them, please include whichever you are most proud of in your bio.
While we take the publication of your work seriously, we enjoy fun cover letters. Address us by first name, if you wish. Tell us what you liked in a previous issue or what you hated. Tell us a funny story or a random fact. If you're more comfortable with formalities, be formal. Be you.

We do not have a set method for reading submissions. I almost always read a poem the entire way through, but if it's riddled with errors, I am unlikely to finish. A prose piece must grab me within the first half page. If I'm not interested at that point, I assume our readers won't be, either.
Kate reads, and I quote, "ALL OF IT."
Our guest editors are welcome to read each piece as they personally choose.