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Unread 02-08-2018, 07:18 PM
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Pat Myers, the judge of the Washington Post, often mentions on Facebook how many submissions she receives. Psuedonyms are not tolerated, and no one bothers with them since there are no cash prizes and the only payoff is the "glory" of winning. Everyone is entilted to submit up to 25 entries in any given contest, though only a handful of people submit that many. Anyway, it's not unusual for there to be around 2000 or more entries, which probably means around 200 people submitting. She publishes anywhere from 15-45 winners (roughly). Generally the bulk of the winners are people who have won at least once before, though each week there are also some "first offenders" who have never won before. They keep pretty good statistics, and I think there have been something like 3000 individual winners over the past 20 years or so. Entries are judged blind.
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