Yeah, We Hate Top 10 Lists Too
Yeah, We Hate Top 10 Lists Too
Top 10 Misconceptions About Lit Mags (& Lit Mag Editors) • This Year’s Contest Nominations • Upcoming Virtual Readings
TOP TEN MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT LIT MAGS (& LIT MAG EDITORS)
Number 1: Well-heeled lit mag editors arrive from alternate realities where they’ve been generously funded by cultured yet evil philanthropists similar yet different from Jabba the Hutt and Victor Von Doom.
I only know one lit mag founder from an alternate reality. Most of us hail from this hellscape, slog away in musty-smelling home offices, beg for donations on Facebook, and prostrate ourselves to foundation board members.
It’s super fun. You should try it.
Number 2: Lit mags make tons of money and our editors are well paid for their hard work.
That’s just horseshit.
Number 3: Lit mag editors wear vintage spectacles, voluminous cloaks, and smoke clove cigarettes.
That’s actually true.
Number 4: Lit mag editors are Vecna’s underworld disciples whose sole purpose is to make writers’ lives a living hell.
That’s true too.
Number 5: Lit mag editors do not begin drinking brown liquor early in the day.
This list is a perfect example of why that’s not true.
Number 6: Lit mag editors love it when you tell us how we should run our magazine.
It’s our favorite thing! One contributor seemed quite taken by the COMMENTS section other lit mags offered and suggested we add a COMMENTS section to our site. When we refused, pointing out that bored incels usually turn COMMENTS sections into misogynistic wastelands, dude had all his friends (and wife) email emotional missives about why adding COMMENTS to our site would be a good thing.
That was super fun and we thoroughly enjoyed that diversion.
Number 7: Lit mags have epic holiday parties.
No budget equals no epic parties.
Number 8: Lit mag editors have never been rejected by other lit mag editors.
I’m not even going to answer that.
Number 9: The editors of The Paris Review often throw cash at small, I-hope-we-have-enough-money-to-publish-another-issue lit mags.
Are you kidding me?
Number 10: Lit mags are run by the super elite.
Most of us at Hypertext Magazine went to Columbia College Chicago. Look it up.
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