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Q&A Why do most literature magazines take so long (several weeks or months) to respond to submissions despite having only a few hundred subs per month?

I have heard that the the editor of F&SF (Finlay) is the only one who reads all the submissions. Yet he always responds within a week! (With detailed comments on each story.) Clarkesworld is an...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by user394536‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T09:15:42Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/37307
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar user394536‭ · 2019-12-08T09:15:42Z (almost 5 years ago)
I have heard that the the editor of F&SF (Finlay) is the only one who reads all the submissions. Yet he always responds within a week! (With detailed comments on each story.) Clarkesworld is another example. They have only a few people reading and yet they respond within two days! So why do other (lower tier) magazines, which presumably don't receive as much submissions, take so long (several weeks or months)?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2018-06-28T23:07:48Z (over 6 years ago)
Original score: 7