Lynne Barrett, who led the master class on revision at the 2010 Mendocino Coast Writers Conference, has just published an important article in The Review Review titled: What Editors Want; A Must-Read for Writers Submitting to Literary Magazines
Her last paragraph sums up the need to be well-informed about what editors are looking for:
Last Advice
Try editing. Volunteer to read submissions for a magazine near you (or, with web journals, far away). Start a little magazine or a one-time anthology with some friends. Seeing how much is sent when it is not ready and how a single work reads amid a mass of submissions will teach you a lot. You may not enjoy it or you may get hooked. But once you have been an editor, you understand their arduous devotion.
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