This is Christina here. In case people didn't know, several different members of our staff blog here.
We're doing our best at this point to get as many submissions as possible. It's tough with this time of year because everyone seems to be consumed with paper grading. We saw a flood of submissions around August and September.
One thing I noticed: despite the femininity of the site (it's supposed to be gender neutral), we receive far more submissions from men than from women. Someone once told me that more men submit to literary journals in this country than women (but women still dominate other aspects of the publishing industry). I wonder why that is. Are men more confident about their work? Are they more aggressive about their artistic careers? Do they submit prematurely? It would be interesting to pursue those questions with research and hard data.
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