the editorial process
Where those submissions go
I guess I could call this confessions of an idealistic editor, but I’m not making a 70s made-for-TV film so I won’t. In the early days of flipped eye publishing I saw every submission as a chance to enhance the experience that most aspiring writers have when they submit work to a publisher. I responded [...]
The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets
So, I arrived from a British Council-linked trip to India to find a press release about the Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets. I’m very pleased about the awards for two reasons: 1) there is an award for both authors and publishers 2) I can’t help but feel that we contributed to the higher profile [...]
towards editorial harmony
As Hannibal from the A-Team used to say, I love it when a plan comes together! What am I talking about? Well, for a while now, two very talented poets – Niall O’Sullivan and Jacob Sam-La Rose – have been helping me with my editiorial work, reducing my workload in poetry and allowing flipped eye [...]
the downsides of growth
When I started out as an editor, one of my favourite things was to finish my ‘working day’ and then settle down to read the unsolicited manuscripts we had received during the day. Conscious of my own frustrations as a writer, rarely hearing back from editors when I sent work out (sometimes even when my [...]
