In my stack of mail upon return from my recent trip was a flimsy note from Chelsea, measuring about 2 x 3 inches, badly photocopied, with 23 cents postage due because the morons put my recyclable manuscript in the reply envelope:
Due to the overwhelming quantity of submissions and limited space in our journal, your work is being returned and/or discarded unread. No submissions will be considered until September 2006.
Message to editors: if you are closed to submissions, update your damn guidelines so that writers don't waste their time and postage on submitting to you!
2 comments:
They deserve a good tongue-lashing.
I had an experience with another Noted Journal some years back - I'd name it but hope that the editors have changed their ways - in which my returned mss envelope was stuffed with all sorts of materials about the magazine, the press, the editors etc. until it was well over weight. That necessitated a trip from my rural WV home to the Post Office to identify the offending item and retrieve it. That is one of two magazines forever off my list - the other one condemned for breathtaking rudeness.
I got one of these, too.
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