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THis isn't funny anymore. I still have yet to hear anything on my submission. I dug up the old email informing me they received it. I know I put in a SASE envelope. All my ducks were placed in a row. I therefore can conclude one of two things that happened.
a) Kathy had it on an early finalist list in her desk where it slipped behind it and is now being used as nesting material for the mouse living inside her wall.
or...
b) Ms. Wentworth believes there is a place for garbage and it is not the US postal system.
Guess I will put on some warm clothes, grab a lawnchair, and wait by my mailbox.
[This message has been edited by snapper (edited January 17, 2010).]
I had received the confirmation email that my entry was received but I still have not received my rejection. (I'm assuming its a rejection since all the HM's and finalists have been announced)
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I noticed a WOTF entrant from my state was an HM in Q04. Philip Edward Kaldon, his blog says that he has had an entry completely lost in the mail before. At least you guys know it got there.
quote:In twenty-two WOTF entries I have had 3 Finalists (1 to be published in the 24th WOTF Anthology), 2 Semi-Finalists and 10 Quarter-Finalists/2 Honorable Mention, plus 4 plain old Rejections and 1 Lost-in-Mail (No Decision).
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If that is the case, I have no certificate that the mail has been shipped. Who guarantees me that they will not pretend they never received my shipment and claim my story as their own?
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quote:If that is the case, I have no certificate that the mail has been shipped. Who guarantees me that they will not pretend they never received my shipment and claim my story as their own?
History. With WOTF in particular they have had tens of thousands of submissions and if that had ever happened word would have leaked out about it. After so many years, with the same reading staff in place, and it never happening I would say you could trust this particular contest/publisher not to do that.
Plus they send you a confirmation email to let you know that they received your submission.
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quote:I recall reading where an author was informed that his entry he sent two years pryor was discovered inside the WotF secret lair. After sending their deepest apoligizes they offered him a list of options. He decided to let that be his submission for the next.
He got a quarter-finalist (now called Honable Mention) in the end.
A complimentary critique would have been cool in that instance
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I'm not questioning WOTF's integrity. It's just that I had some bad experience with mail service in the past where something quite important was sent in haste without being registered. And it simply disappeared. I blamed the mail service, of course, not the recipient. If I had the shipment registered, I would at least have proof I sent it.
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You can get USPS proof of delivery without having it signed for by the recipient. USPS will just say yeah, it was delivered on this date. Plus the confirmation email tells you that they received it. What they dont want is a requirement for Joni to be there to personally sign for it when it arrives, there are way too many submissions for that to be feasible on their end.
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It has been 93 days since I last heard of the fate of my 10Q4 script. All others have either shrugged their shoulders and grinned at their Honorable Mention award, cried over their coffee and moved on from their 'try again' letter, or snapped their fingers on getting so close as Chris has. My poor submission has become lost in the abyss. A refuge from the lands of hopes and dreams, a vagrant among the fortunate and lucky literary works, a ghost without substance drifting without purpose, and a 1000 other cliched overdramatic passages that I do not have time to research at the moment. I often lie and bed and wonder what has happened to my lonely, black ink on white paper, words that are pasted together, masterpiece. Was it close at hand when the heat went out in KDW's house and they needed something to start the kindling in the fireplace? Was it the day when poochy couldn't wait be let out and they needed something to clean it up? Perhaps it had a more noble fate and is being used to catch the dripping paint in the freshly painted living room. I am now wondering if their is something else I could have done. Was the tiny cameras inserted inside the page numbers to spy on Kathy while she read my script such a bad idea? Does Skadders 'Voodoo spell on every page' suggestion sound so silly now? Maybe I should start a support group with LN.
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got my rejection in the mail today as well snapper
it was dated Jan 14th, the same day that the final HM's and finalists were posted...I wonder if they always wait until posting the winners to send these out?
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