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Q&A The ethics of multiple contest submissions

You can try it in a different way... All I've read about big-company publishing says that you shouldn't send your manuscript to different publishing-houses at the same time but rather send it to t...

posted 12y ago by Mussri‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Mussri‭ · 2019-12-08T02:20:47Z (almost 5 years ago)
You can try it in a different way...

All I've read about big-company publishing says that you shouldn't send your manuscript to different publishing-houses at the same time but rather send it to the biggest (in your opinion) and see what they say about it. You'll have to wait a lot but you won't have to deal with a big publisher accepting then rejecting your story because they felt insult that you'd sent it somewhere else while they were reading it.

By the same logic, I'd say you should send your story to multiple contests on a (contest by contest) basis and see how it goes. Contests should be much faster in replies (scores) so the process's more tolerable than what's with publishing houses. At the same time, multiple contests would most likely have different times for submitting and scoring so it would take even less time.

And lastly, I would second Standback's recommendation that you view the contests rules and/or contact them for clarification.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2012-04-30T19:52:06Z (over 12 years ago)
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