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Is submitting to writing contests akin to gambling? In No Return: Some Thoughts on the Writing Contest, Epiphany Editor Chris Leslie-Hynan explores the connection.
A poker player thinks in Expected Value, and when I look at writing contests through that cold lens, at the amount of money moving from the writers to the magazine,…
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