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Read all the editors' answers to Duotrope's interview question: If you publish writing, how much of a piece do you read before making the decision to reject it? Learn more.
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Q: If you publish writing, how much of a piece do you read before making the decision to reject it?
A: I always read the whole thing.
A: The whole of it as haiku and haiga are short!
A: Unless the piece is really hard to follow, we read them through to the end. That being said, I can generally tell if the piece isn't right for us within the first few paragraphs.
A: We carefully read every submission from beginning to end before deciding if it's the right fit for The Palisades Review. If a piece shows promise but isn’t quite ready for publication, we often collaborate with writers on edits to help bring it to its full potential.
A: I will always read to the end of the piece.
A: Multiple editors read the manuscript in its entirety unless it is DOA right away due to not being a good fit.
A: Depends on the submission.
A: I read every piece to the end. There's no telling what I might think about a poem as a whole until after I've finished it. Of course, if I run across any epic poems, I may only read part of it!
A: We read every submission from beginning to end and repeat the process at least twice on every submission
A: We can generally tell if the author gets our vibe within a few paragraphs. But if we love the writing and its clearly not the right story, we will often go back and ask if they are working on anything else. We have 2-3 people over each submission to account for the different ways people scan and read submissions.
A: Yup! We read it all. We try our best to send personalized rejections when we can to let people know if we especially liked a piece within the submission. Many of our contributors were previously rejected before they had work appear in Frozen Sea. A ‘no’ from us is not a ‘no’ forever!
A: We read every submission carefully through in its entirety in order to make a decision.