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How Long Submissions Take to be Approved
December 6, 2009
It seems that when you submit something, it takes weeks, perhaps even months for it to be approved. Everything is always published on the website, is it not? Has anyone ever received a letter saying your article was not approved and will never will be? I don't think so. Why not just post everything up right away so we no longer have to wait and wait to see our work up online.
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XOBookishXO BRONZE said...
on Jul. 18 2013 at 8:56 pm
Oh, that means I'll be waiting a while.
The reason it takes so long is because they recieve so many submissions, and have to read through all of them to make sure there isn't something that breeches the guidelines. One of my pieces was rejected before. I was surprised, because I didn't think I violated any guidelines, but I wasn't too upset about it.
RunnergirlAlli SILVER said...
on Jun. 12 2013 at 11:36 am
I acutally have just had a poem of mine rejected, and I have to say I was rather upset. But without roadblocks, you don't become a good climber. I don't however think things should be posted right away, that opens the door to plagiarism and we don't want that.
It's funny, I submitted a SasuNaru fanfiction a while ago, and before I sent it in, I checked it over for swear words (because I wrote it AGES ago), and I missed one (which I noticed when I read through it on the site). How did that one get skipped over?
I haven't had work rejected yet, but a lot of my poetry takes awhile to be approved. Yet I think that because a lot of a certain type of writing is submitted at time that it takes longer for them to get through it, yet once they get to a whole bunch of someone's then it gets published in a bundle. For instance, I've published at least 20 poems, and 17 of them were put under the Free Verse section, which I can guess gets tons of submissions a day. Typically, I submit a bunch at a time, and when I finally recieve the email that I've been published, it's typically each poem I just recently sent in. However, I did submit a SasuNaru fanfic, and it was maybe a day before it was published. This is probably because there are not as many fanfiction submitted as there are Free Verse poems. This is my case, however, it may differ for others, I'm not sure.
Lokelani said...
on Apr. 16 2013 at 6:46 pm
Depends on how long your articles are, if they're poetry or whatever. Also I had to wait longer when I first joined than now, but maybe that's just me. :) Hope you have fun on here!
Lokelani said...
on Apr. 16 2013 at 6:41 pm
I didn't know your articles could be rejected, so obviously it's never happened to me. I was irritated with how long submissions took to go through when I first started Teen Ink, but now it doesn't take as long. A week is all. But I do poetry, so it makes a difference, as others have said.
JazzyJay said...
on Apr. 13 2013 at 6:22 pm
All my work is published in less than a week. I did however submit one book and it ended up not being published but I think that was because itr was only 8 pages and most of my work is 30- 40 pages long.
theatregirl PLATINUM said...
on Mar. 30 2013 at 10:57 am
Your article is interesting, but I never experience that. Of the probably 25 entry u done in the past 6 monst, only 3 have been rejected. When they were, I was sent a notice saying reject because either subject matter or grammar (in my case it was grammar). And also, a tip to users if u submit something to a broad catgory like "free verse poetry" or "realistic fiction" it going take longer and your article not going to be feature. I'm fact, out the 22 articles I have written , the 2 that been feature. (One is currently being feature under recently submitted hot topics, it called "I won't respond to the names you call me") they have only been featured in smaller catargories. The one thing is, obviously, stories take longer. My first 2 submitions were an article and a poem. The poem was published in 3 days, the article in 2 weeks. Obviously, since an editor must read through the article , an 2 stanza poem is going be read faster then a 3000 word article.
sweetangel4life GOLD said...
on Mar. 22 2013 at 11:45 am
i had a small article rejected i think it was cause i used an innaprotiate word. i took it out and it was accepted a few weeks later .i think it takes so long because the editors of the website have to read them and everything.
TheSkyOwesMeRain GOLD said...
on Feb. 21 2013 at 7:58 pm
I totally agree! I've submitted a haiku (!) a month or so ago, and it's still not been rejected or accepted yet.
AmarisKade PLATINUM said...
on Feb. 21 2013 at 10:08 am
I agree. One piece I wrote (Our Snow) got published the next day. Another, is still pending, and I submitted it two week ago. It really depends.
NewIdentity GOLD said...
on Feb. 13 2013 at 11:42 am
I have also had a poem rejected before. I think it was because I quoted someone else's poem and then responded to it with my own poem. After it was rejected I resubmitted the poem without quoting the other poem and it was accepted. It was rejected because not all the work was mine, even though I was not claiming to have written the other poem.
NadiaFilanovsky SILVER said...
on Feb. 11 2013 at 6:00 pm
I've actually had a piece rejected before, it kind of broke my spirits for a while but I'm back puting up work. I'm not sure what causes them to reject or accept pieces, mine was something I had written about school, but I could see why they had rejected it because it had a very sad ending. So, yeah, I mean I agree it does take a while, but they should be reading through the pieces because it took me having my piece rejected to realize that maybe it wasn't appropriate for the website.
Positivity_At_Its_Finest DIAMOND said...
on Feb. 10 2013 at 10:02 pm
with my work, it takes about a week to get published/approved. however, when i see when my work is published, it seems like it was a time way before i actually saw it on the website.
ClarinetPower SILVER said...
on Jan. 23 2013 at 3:45 pm
Likeaboss427: It depends. I have had an article take anywhere from two days to two weeks.
LinkinPark12 PLATINUM said...
on Jan. 16 2013 at 1:47 pm
Yeah, well, they do that to read your work, check for any swearing (which they beep out) and see whether your work should go in the magazine or receive any awards (e.g. Editor's Choice). Also, please read my work! I'd love for any rating or comment, thanks!
Likeaboss427 GOLD said...
on Jan. 13 2013 at 1:11 pm
joined yesterday and i submitted 7 articles. about how long does it take to go through the editors and hopefully get on the website?
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