That said, a lot of poetry magazine editors lurk on this site, never posting anything, but checking out events like the Sonnet Bake-off for sheer enjoyment. So if your sonnet is chosen as one of the finalists, they may see it without resorting to a search engine.
Still, doesn't the massive, ego-fueling glory of being an Eratosphere Sonnet Bake-off Finalist outweigh the tepid flicker of glory you'd get for plain old publishing? And anyway, aren't there plenty of worthy venues that are happy to reprint good work that has previously appeared elsewhere? So personally, I wouldn't sweat that.
Instead, worry that your sonnet will make it to the finals, only to be blasted by impossibly picky critics who think their own rejected entries were better: "Why is this mediocre thing in the finals? The rhymes are predictable, L3 and L9 are metrically wobbly, and the trope itself is a threadbare idea presented in a pedestrian way...."
Last edited by Julie Steiner; 09-06-2016 at 10:07 AM.
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