Hiya,

A few months back in 'Jobs and Opp's', Tank Magazine were asking for flash fictions submissions. I was wondering whether anyone else had made a submission and had recieved feedback. I'd almost forgotten making the sub' and as yet have recieved no feedback.

Thanks,

Darryl

Darryl,

I made a flash submission via email at the beginning of June and have not heard anything back. That's two months now.

I have to say that I felt strange submitting via email. I felt needy for confirmation of receipt!

Ani

Ani,

Yeah, feels weird throwing work into the void, with no idea what's happening to it. At least it's not just me. Even an e-mail saying 'No thanks' would do. I almost forgot about my sub, would hate to get another piece published and not realise it.

Darryl

Darryl,

I've submitted my piece elsewhere, but I'm concerned that the earlier submission to Tank could boomerang back at me now! (Well, if only!)

Ani

Ani and Darryl,
Did the publishers give a time span in which they would get back to you? If so, and it's gone past, you could email them and ask about the status of the pieces you sent in. If there was no time given, to email them after 3 months is reasonable. If you get no reply, forget about them, they're disorganised maybe.
If they requested no simultaneous submissions, (that is you sending the piece to another publisher at the same time, which I'm sure you both know), then if you're honourable you'd tell them that because of 'silence' from their end you sent it elsewhere and withdrew it from them, (that way you gamble on it being accepted with the other publishers). If you're not honourable and Tank say they want the piece, (they were just so so so slow, man, but hey that's kool init!), you could give it to them and pray that the second publishers don't want it too.
If the second publisher looked more professional than 'Tank', I'd hold out for that, and tell Tank they were just too too late, (but that's me, and I did the very thing recently, when it turned out that a publisher hadn't read my story because it had 'gone in the long story pile).
Becca.

I submitted to Tank and haven't heard a thing, not even a receipt, I guess I'll follow it up, it's only common courtesty after all. Let me know the outcome.

Julie
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I agree with everything Becca said.

And, some of you found email subs odd... We'll all have to get used to it. More and more magazines are taking submissions via email or online forms. It's actually a good thing. It saves on postage and (usually) makes for quicker response times.

I think one of the problems is, (for writers anyway), that setting up mags is a trendy thing to do at the moment, and many of them start with a flourish and a big boast, but they're done by people with minimal experience and they often fold. There's a site which you can access by googling 'Dead Magazines' which tries to keep abreast of which of them have died.
If I had to make a choice about submitting to a new lively looking mag and and one that I knew was long established, (and respected), I'd definitely go for the older one. - Unless I'd lost interest in the story I was submitting, or didn't have a lot of feeling about it, then I'd just fling it out there I guess. It is so annoying when when you seemed to have chucked a piece of work away into a black hole though.
Becca.

Just checked my diary and I sent stuff to Tank at the beginnning of June too. No reply either.
Elspeth

I wonder if they do still exist?
Becca.