Tales From the Slush Pile

Rite Gud

When you send a short story to a magazine, it probably doesn’t go directly to the editor. Instead, it ends up in what’s called the slush pile–the pool of unsolicited work waiting for review. Who reviews it? Weirdos like us. In this episode of Rite Gud, we’re joined by slush readers NM Whitley and Karl P to talk about why stories get rejected, retro ’70s gender war fiction, and the art of rejectomancy.

Links:

• How to Escape the Slush Pile
• The Shocking Truth about the Slush Pile
• Very Recent History: The “Slush Pile”
• Against Quirky Writing
• Psychotic Operas 2: Green Box Edition
• NM Whitley, “Fest”
• Improvise: Scene from the Inside Out
• Nectar for Rejectomancers

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