Looser
November 2, 2007 by Deborah Ng
Filed under Entertainment
Submitted for your consideration is this ad for literary magazine submissions. Notice the high standards. Notice all the “shoulds”. Notice the emphasis on deadlines.
Center City Lit Mag Looking for Submissions! Nov. 5
Reply to: withheld@looser.org
Date: 2007-10-24, 6:55PM EDTThe Center City Literary Magazine has just begun, and we’re looking for submissions. We’re accepting prose, poetry, black and white photography, and art that can be translated into black and white. If your interested in submitting, send your work to: withheld@gmail.com. You can also send any questions you have to that address, or to the address above. Please send all submissions by November 5th (remember remember the fifth of November remember.)
You can also find us on Facebook here:
http://withheldforbeingalooserAs to formatting, simple send your written work as a Word Document (.doc), and you’re visual work as a Jpeg (.jpg). Poetry should not be epic, and prose should be limited to a chapter, though short stories have a better chance of being published.
Why not submit? You’ve got nothing to loose!
* Location: Broad and Walnut
* Compensation: no pay
Notice the lack of pay.
What have I got to loose? Here’s what I have to loose, my time. My self-respect. My chance of my writing going to a real publication paying real money.
Oh and the word is LOSE not LOOse. How hard is this people? They’re even pronounced differently. Loose. Lose. And while I’m at it, you’re is a contraction for “you are”. See? I know the difference. Someone who is in a position to hire writers should know this too.
They apparently aren’t aware of the difference between “your” and “you’re”, either. You already highlighted the misuse of “you’re”, but they also have got this gem in their ad: “If your interested in submitting”.
I’m reasonably sure that the “uarts” in their email address refers to the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. I wonder how their instructors would react, upon seeing the unproofread ad put forth by their students?
Scarier than it being unproofread, is the thought that it may indeed have been proofread to the best of their ability.
Believe me, the University offers a writing degree only to say they have one. I have seen their marketing materials – atrocious!