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Has anyone here been published in The Paris Review? I have a subscription and the pieces that get published in it seem to be really basic, easy writings. How easy is it to get published? Is there a more prestigious magazine than The Paris Review to get published in? McSweeny's seems to be prestigious, but I know Dave Eggers is a big-time hack, so I doubt I want my name/work associated with it.

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No one?

>> No.20170773

>>20169986
their unsolicited submission window is only February (for poetry) and they get something like 50-60 thousand submissions so you have to wait for 6-8 months for them to tell you to fuck off because they chose a low-effort inatatrammable piece of garbage because it was written by a woman wearing a hijab in the West
I genuinely have no idea how you can get around their subhuman editors, but it's the same thing with the New Yorker and Atlantic

>> No.20170776

>>20170773
instagrammable*

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>>20170773
I don't write poetry, but the poetry in The Paris Review is particularly bad. I'm surprised this is the crème de la crème of 60k submissions.

I have an "ethnic" name, btw, so I'm not worried about being ignored for having the whitest-ass whitebread name.

>> No.20170803

>>20170773
>a woman wearing a hijab in the west
or some random guy with a phd who knows someone working there and writes the most soulless technical piece imaginable.

>> No.20170809

>>20170797
yeah, lucky you.

>> No.20170851

>>20170809
You can use a fake name if that's a hurdle for you.

>> No.20170860

>>20169986
- It has an abysmal acceptance rate for unsolicited pieces. Look it up, there are articles detailing this. The "unknowns" getting published in it have some connection to the MFA at Colombia.
- Other journals of this perceived calibre are similar. Regardless of how good you think your work is, if you're serious about being published in one of these places, there are many steps ahead of you.