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Podcast: Down with Bowne (The Uncut Version)
Episode: Dearest Writer, We Really Miss You
Description: Literary magazines beg authors to return to writing for free.
Beloved Writer,
We noticed you have not submitted any poems or short fiction on Submittable to us with the required $25 reading fee. We really miss those fees. Well, as the reader, I really miss those fees. Can you blame me? Can you picture such an erudite and ambitious guy like me working at Dollar General?
Heck, I’m publishing one of the best literary magazines in the Dakota Territories — and I can’t do that for free. I know. I know. It took us — m...