I am going to be a big noodge. As to rejection because of Eratosphere or other forum posting, there is no way to know unless they decide to tell you. In any given case,
the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Originally Posted by Susan McLean
....more and more editors seem to be Googling workshopped poems and then rejecting them if they can find them.
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And then this from Janice:
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Originally Posted by Janice D. Soderling
I also read recently somewhere about a young poet who had won a contest and googled herself just to see what came up and found that her winning poem had won two other contests under someone else's name. So there are both advantages and disadvantages with these creepy-crawlies....It does help one keep a protective eye on one's work.
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Heck, I'd even be willing to pay if things were secure!
Internet publication such as we have here
is publication. My wife the lawyer says so.
If one wants to protest or change this pattern of rejection, we need to know who to complain to.
Which publications?
If one wants to avoid wasting time and energy, one needs to know who not to submit to.
Which publications?
Golias was brave enough to name
Poetry.
As with a disease, silence does no one any good.
Allen