> Joanna:
>
> <<
> Do you mean to tell me that up to 20 years ago every
> competition in the UK
> was free-entry?
> >>
>
> Yes, or they didn't exist.
>
I think the non-defunct Stand Magazine Short Story
competition always had an entry fee. This fee may have
also gotten you a sample issue.
>
> And there was a rather neat parallel to the Vanity
> Press Syndrome -- if you
> got a straight publication in a magazine, you
> included it on your CV, if you
> got in via a competition, you didn't tell your best
> friend.
>
> The Freemartin
Here (US) all books of poems are apparently by law
winners of a contest or prize, and it is decreed that
the information is published in large type on the
cover. Many books are now winners of two awards--the
first for the manuscript, which gets the book
published, and the second for the book after its
publication. It's like the kindergarten where everyone
gets a gold star.
David Latane
http://www.standmagazine.org (Stand Magazine, Leeds)
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