In the time I have been submitting to the Speccie and Oldie contests, I have received three honorable mentions and no wins, but I have placed three of the rejects in The Barefoot Muse, Lighten Up Online, and Think Journal, and have others under submission elsewhere. What I enjoyed about the contests (back when I had time to enter them, which has not been true for a while) was getting prompts for writing that I would never have come up with on my own. Not all of the resulting verse was worth trying to get published, but I was happy enough with some of it to try. I agree with Roger that the prose entries have nowhere to go if they are not chosen, but there are venues for light verse outside of Light Quarterly.
Susan
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