I guess multiple submissions are okay; as long as you *actually subscribe*
to the magazines.
It always strikes me as amazing how many poets submit, and expect payment,
all without ever buying a copy of (or merely reading) the magazines in
question.
The great sin would be multiple publication.
Best
Chris
> From: "Sean O'Brien" <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:50:14 +0100
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: query
>
> Dear Matthew
>
> Have you edited a magazine?
>
> Best wishes
>
> Sean O'Brien
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Matthew Francis <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 10:39 PM
> Subject: Re: query
>
>
>> Peter Howard writes:
>>>
>>>
>> Personally, I would regard as 'published' a poem of mine that had
>> appeared on a web site (mine or otherwise), but I wouldn't regard it as
>> published if I'd just posted it to an email list like this one.
>>>
>>
>>>
>> For myself, I would regard it as published if I'd submitted to a web
> 'zine,
>> but not if I'd put it on my own site. It is certainly a very grey area.
>>
>> Peter adds:
>>>
>>>
>> I wouldn't submit the same poem to two different web 'zines if they
>> wanted first publication.
>>>
>>>
>> And, I suppose, nor would I. But as a matter of principal I resent editors
>> telling one not to submit to two places at once. To submit a poem for
>> consideration is not to make a commitment. All you're offering is the
> chance
>> for a particular editor to make an offer for it. It could happen that the
>> poet doesn't like the offer and says s/he had a better one elsewhere. Only
>> in a world where poets are considered the lowest form of human life would
>> this be considered unreasonable.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Matthew
>>
>
>
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