Q: What is a fair wait for writers who pay reading fees?
"If a reading fee falls to a lit mag, and there is no one there to read the work, can it even be called a 'reading fee'?"
Welcome to our weekend conversation!
Within the literary magazine community, there is perhaps no subject quite so universally debated and so persistently divisive as submission fees. The discussions and arguments seem to have begun with the dawn of online publishing combined with the launch of Submittable, in and around 2010, and have not let up since.