Tag: submissions
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Throwing Your Heart into The Fire, or How to Win at the Publication Game by Elya Braden
Now that Gyroscope Review is open again for submissions, I’ve been thinking about rejections. As I read poem after poem, noting yes, no, or maybe, commenting online to the other editors and reading their comments, I’ve been thinking about the responsibility every editor has to the writers who are brave enough to risk rejection by…
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A Day in the Life of an Editor
Editors do a lot of things – we read, we respond, we choose things to publish. We even do actual editing – you know, get into someone else’s words and try to make them better with clarification, brevity, grammar, imagery, and all that. But the very first thing on that list, you may have noticed,…
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An Early Close to Our Fall Issue Reading Period
It’s true – our fall issue reading period was scheduled to run until September 15 OR until we had enough good work to fill the issue. Guess what? We got tons of good work and were able to fill our issue more quickly than we imagined. Breathing room for all is the happy result as…
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Wrap This Up, Too: Looking Back at 2017
We are now at the end of our first year of offering a print edition of Gyroscope Review and we thought, hey, let’s look at those numbers hanging out in our Submittable account. Just how many submissions did we get in 2017? The answer: 1,854 submissions from 559 poets arrived on our virtual doorstep during the…
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HOW TO MAKE SURE YOUR SUBMISSION GETS THE ATTENTION IT DESERVES
With one month to go in our current reading period, we’ve received 229 submissions. Of those submissions, we’ve already declined or withdrawn 148. There are 63 pieces in process right this minute, and that will change by the time this post goes live. Every reading period, we see some of the same trends, not all of…
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The End of Another Reading Period
We hope everyone is getting into holiday mode! At Gyroscope Review, we are in get-the-lead-out mode as we go through the poems we’ve accepted for our January issue, organize files, create covers, write editorials, and, if we’re lucky, eat fudge. This just-completed reading period, which technically ends at midnight tonight, had over 350 poems submitted and…
