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Unread 07-22-2022, 03:16 PM
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Default Best of the net nomination

One of my visual poems, 'a wild fiction of a wild imagination' has been nominated for best of the net.

This is a very nice thing - I'm thrilled - but equally I'm very aware that since all online journals can nominate 6 poems each, the nominees probably count in the hundreds of thousands and this is nothing to make 'too much' of.

But still nice.

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Yes, truly nice. And very cool, in its own way.

I owe you a pm; please excuse my late rudeness, I want to give you the time you deserve.
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Thank you! It is cool, I agree - shoal of sardines rather than shark-cool but sardines are beautiful creatures, balletic as well as good on toast.

Don't worry about time and PM's. Life is busy, and poetry is far more important than PM's.

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Congratulation! That is really cool. Hope you win.
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Well done, way better than most!
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Yay! Congratulations! It's worth celebrated no matter how many other nominations there are.

Which journal nominated you? And can you link to the poem / nomination list?
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Very good! Congratulations Sarah-Jane.

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Thank you John, Ralph, Matt and David,

I am pleased (I don't think I have a cat in the sea's chance of winning).

Matt, the piece nominated is the one flagged on here

The journal itself is here - Acropolis is a new journal. Their ed is a friend/poet colleague on social media who is part of a group interested in short, imagistic poetry.

I haven't seen them publish much metrical poetry, but they do like prose poems and flash fiction.

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That’s a lovely honor, Sarah-Jane, especially if the nomination comes from an editor you respect. Congratulations. Also you’re wise to put the whole thing in perspective as you do. Back when the Umbrella family of poetry zines was publishing, the editor had a rule against including Pushcart and Best of the Net nominations in a contributor’s bio. If somebody had actually won the award, that was one thing, but she was seeing just too damn many mentions of the noms and she wasn’t having it any more.
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Thank you Chris, and I agree about the need to contextualise.

I think it's tricky to navigate through the world of poetry and 'what means what' to different people. It is the same, maybe for publications (although I don't belong to the 'that doesn't count as a publication' school of thought - it's too hierarchical and doesn't help people grow).

But...once I'd got over the first rush of getting published and the joy of knowing that anyone - anyone, anywhere - valued what I was writing at all I did a bit of research. And came across an article that basically said what 'Umbrella' said - don't put these on your bio - pushcarts and 'best of' are nice but tell editors nothing.
And then I slowly started to learn about the world of journals, too.

I now use a mixture of duotrope stats, 'lists' like the Garstang list and - most importantly - my own personal feeling about work published on site - to decide where I internally 'place' a journal in that wider context. But it took me a while to work that out. And I still send out work to people I like who I want to support even if they 'fail' some of those internal checks because life is too short to keep quality assuring & there has to be joy and friendship too.

I think it's the same with things like Print-on-demand publishing. I'm not against POD. With some publishers, you can see clear editorial control and quality control whether it's POD or not. With others (particularly those that use Amazon POD only) it feels like self-publishing under another name.

Am I being overly picky? Has anyone else come across this? Is it worth starting a thread about?

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