Finishing up issue 7 of Y2KQ
Remember that quarterly literary magazine I started two years ago? We'll It's still going. I've got just a handful of submissions left to go through before I make my decisions on them.
Honestly this post should probably be on the newsletter for the magazine itself but I felt like posting here first because I want to keep that newsletter sounding slightly more professional.
This round I got about 106 subs, the majority of them are poetry. I try to send out mildly personalized rejections to everyone who doesn't make it in. That is, unless they send in off topic work. It's a themed magazine. Everything in it is set in or about the years 1997-2007. But still people send in random stuff. Those people do not get personalized rejections, lol.
Last year all the contributors who got into the magazine got a physical copy of the yearly annual. This year I've got less contributors because I limited the number of new pieces per issue to 8 instead of 13-15 so I'm thinking of sending them a copy of the issue and maybe a 1 inch button that says "Top 8" or something fun. I don't have tons of money to spend this year. Tips from the submission form cover about a month of hosting for the site so it's on me to front the printing and shipping of the issues.
So while I take a quick break from making people feel bad in emails I'm coming up with some print on demand merch for the magazine that folks might enjoy. Let me know what you think:
