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UnclePete
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  		   Posted 1/5/2006 8:21 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
So, as some of you know, I left my years in the hospitality and tech industries behind me and went back to school to finish this damn degree (if it kills me). I'm now an English major (senior and a half I think, with the credits I have carried over) at Ohio state.

This quarter I'm taking a grad level course, open to some undergrads, about the lit publishing industry -- we have a couple texts with essays from editors combined with stories they've read, letters and gossip essentially is what this course is about. But what we will mainly be doing is reading through the massive slush pile for OSU's lit mag, The Journal.

As soon as I found that part out, i laughed -- a sugestion for those of you whose slush piles are as big as mine -- start a class, and get your students to screen your slush.

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This is what I love about BYU's The Leading Edge (aside from being a pretty darn good read). The writing students read the submissions, fill out small critiques, and recommend the story for rejection or for further movement "up the ladder." The only downside is that to the students this is homework, so very few of the critiques come back with meaningful comments. Still, it's nice to know that aspiring writers are working the junior-editor part of the industry so early in life.


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  		   Posted 5/31/2007 2:08 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Hmm. I'm an adjunct in the CS department at a local JC, but I may have to try swinging my way into the English Lit department to see if I can get some of that love!

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It sounds like an excellent way to get wannabee authors to realize what actually goes on in publishing.

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I've been trying to figure out how to get my undergrad students to work on The Harrow for me for ages, but no luck. This fall I'll be teaching a copyediting course and I'd love to have them copyedit the stories we've accepted for me, but I just know I'd never trust them to do it correctly....!

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  		   Posted 7/8/2007 5:11 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I concur -- copy editing is something else again... nono

but yeah, the slush? a bit of brilliance, seriously.

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  		   Posted 7/8/2007 11:12 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Dru said...
I've been trying to figure out how to get my undergrad students to work on The Harrow for me for ages, but no luck. This fall I'll be teaching a copyediting course and I'd love to have them copyedit the stories we've accepted for me, but I just know I'd never trust them to do it correctly....!


Where do you teach?

You could have 'em copyedit your rejects, then when you see who's doing a good job, move them to the accepteds :)

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