Tracking Submission Costs
"Simple division yields an outlay of $7.56 for each poem/essay."
Welcome to our weekly column offering perspectives on lit mag publishing, with contributions from readers, writers and editors around the world.
Some days it feels like today’s world holds no truths. Yes, gravity still pulls things to Earth in most countries, and the sun typically makes its morning climb somewhere East, but lately it seems the sole remaining universal truth in this sectarian world is that both writers and editors all hate submission fees.