: Re: Why do most literature magazines take so long (several weeks or months) to respond to submissions despite having only a few hundred subs per month? I have heard that the the editor of F&SF

I've never submitted to a magazine but I've submitted to plenty of agents and the reading times are similar.

Agents have told me that the reason they take so long is because they have a day job that takes up their entire 9-5. In the case of a magazine, that will be the day-to-day running of the magazine itself.

Reading submissions is generally expected to be done in their spare time. Most agents who have responded to me have read over the weekend, on flights to holiday destinations, and so on.

So, when it comes to hundreds of subs, unless the organisation pays for them to read on company time, which seems to rarely be the case, they need time to fit it in with their personal lives.

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: Re: Why do most literature magazines take so long (several weeks or months) to respond to submissions despite having only a few hundred subs per month? I have heard that the the editor of F&SF

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