The list gathered thus far:
Third Coast
AGNI
Poetry
Front Porch
Columbia: A Journal of Literature & Art
West Branch
Puerto del Sol
Drunken Boat
Ploughshares
The Baltimore Review
Crazyhorse
Memoir (and)
Blue Earth Review
Quarter After Eight
New Madrid
Sphere
Opium Magazine
Reed Magazine
jubilat
Many Mountains Moving
TIFERET
The Hollins Critic
Quarterly West
PANK
New York Quarterly
Barrel House
DIAGRAM
A Public Space
These guys use an online sub manager, but not the one shared by all the above mags:
Virginia Quarterly Review
42Opus
And finally, let's take a poll. Do you like submitting to journals using the online Submission Manager? Why or why not? Discuss.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
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free. quick. environmentally-friendly.
good for records. backup. quicker resource to know which you've sent to which place.
peace of mind. knowing poems made their journey.
Though, most journals say this way allows us to track our submission, most journals only show the status as "received" and "declined"/"accepted."
West Branch was the only journal that updated the status category with a "read."
Third Coast is the only journal I've submitted to that has used the journal/reader comment section. More journals should do that, especially if they send back a personal reply to your poems.
But, those are small things. I love the submission manager revolution.
Damn. Kind of annoyed about Quarterly West, as I love the journal and just sent a paper submission; didn't know they switched over. Hopefully they don't trash it. We'll see.
I don't think there's anything NOT to like about the online submissions manager(s). I just got a rejection from West Branch in about 11 days total, which was an initial bummer since I like their journal a lot also, but getting to submissions more quickly and efficiently seems like the best way to do things, especially for journals that get a ton of submissions.
I agree with Christopher that there are some minor things that could be worked out, like the "received" and "accepted/declined" ways of informing submitters of their status. Still, I love it, and I'm really glad it was created, not to mention that so many journals are using it now, with more and more ridin' the train.
Submission manager makes me anxious. I still prefer paper, or just plain email subs. But mostly paper.
Generational difference, I suppose... :)
My students like it because they save money on postage.
I like using Submission Manager because I can submit poems without getting up off of my lazy ass!
And it saves money on postage, envelopes, toner, etc.
(On the other hand, I do have some Sinatra stamps I'm itching to send out into the world.)
Thanks for compiling this list!
We wrote our own at VQR in part because we wanted something easier to use and a bit more writer-friendly than Submission Manager. (That's not a knock on Submission Manager. We're just particular. :) It took us over a year, and we tested it out with over 120 authors, modifying it significantly to meet their requests. We ended up eliminating the whole username and password thing, significantly streamlining the upload process, adding more statuses for authors (submitted / under review / declined / accepted / withdrawn), and giving our editor the ability to draw on reader comments to automatically assemble more helpful rejection notes than "thanks but no thanks."
I didn't know about 42opus' system—thanks for that pointer!
I believe The Literary Review also uses Submission Manager. 32 Poems and Meridian use Manuscript Hub, which is more user-friendly but also user-costy.
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