I Will Not Submit: on literary journal submissions

Welcome to the Sunday post.

I have a shelf that includes, among books I've written, the various print literary journals in which my work has appeared. The length of the shelf spans almost 25 years of publications.

Some of these journals are gone, haven’t been in existence for years, even decades. Some of these journals are stalwarts, having survived for decades, through the ups and downs of funding deficits, lack of subscriptions, strong subscriptions, lack of volunteers, social media razzmatazz, fine editors, lousy editors—I could go on and on. And these are just the print journals I’m talking about.