How Long Submissions Take to be Approved

By Anonymous, Hainesport, NJ

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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The_Typewriter said...
Jul. 31, 2011 at 5:52 pm

I agree that it takes a long time, but I also believe that it varies on what category you're writing for. Once I submitted two pieces at once: a short story and a poem. The short story was posted relatively soon and when an e-mail didn't come for the poem I thought: "I guess it is not going to get posted." However, a long time later it did get posted. As I said, it varies.

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Bushra G. said...
Jul. 21, 2011 at 9:55 pm

I was wondering... how long does it take for a piece to get accepted for the print magazine?

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ohmakemeover said...
Jul. 20, 2011 at 11:42 pm

Sometimes it has barely taken hours for me, and sometimes it takes a month. As long as it gets posted, I wouldn't sweat it. Sometimes the anticipation is fun! :-)

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RockGirl182 said...
Jul. 3, 2011 at 4:55 pm

I once wrote something that was not approved but I didn't even get a letter explaining why. And I understand your frustration, I have work that has been pending approval for about 1 month now...

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MissBookWorm said...
Jun. 10, 2011 at 3:47 pm

I agree with you that sometimes submitted work takes a long time to be posted online but I think it's because the editors have to make sure that all the material is appropriate, before putting it up.

Anonymous17 replied...
Jul. 16, 2011 at 2:32 pm

How is that true? People write stories that have bad language in it, smoking, drinking, losing virginity...That isn't appropriate, yet it was published on this site.

ohmakemeover replied...
Jul. 20, 2011 at 11:38 pm

Those things aren't inappropriate, they are a part of teen life that cannot be ignored. What would be inappropriate is hate speech, pornography, etc.

Anonymous17 replied...
Jul. 21, 2011 at 5:42 pm

To me the losing virginity is pornography and the bad language is hate speech. That's just my opinion; I don't want to offend anyone else.

JustSpaceyCasey replied...
Aug. 28, 2011 at 2:01 pm

You stole the words right out of my mouth. :)

maizyiscrazy replied...
Feb. 15, 2012 at 1:56 pm

No, these things that you are all talking about are a part of life, we have to accept that. They want to filter plagiarism, graphic images and articles.

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Ramsha S. said...
Jun. 8, 2011 at 10:24 pm

On my previous account, my poem was taking so long to get published, like at least a month. And then for some reason, teenink won't let me log in to that account so I made a new one and posted it again. But of course it still hasn't been approved.. :(

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xxWRITERxx said...
Jun. 2, 2011 at 5:15 pm

your definetly right on that!

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can_you_keep_a_secret said...
May 31, 2011 at 5:03 pm

Well, just be positive. If they posted them immediately, your work would never be discovered(:

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Aderes18 said...
May 5, 2011 at 1:58 pm

I cannot tell you how much I agree with this person! The work takes like a month to get up on the website!! It's very aggrvating!

Kaitbryn replied...
Feb. 10, 2012 at 1:46 pm

Then find a new site. I use several but I ALWAYS get more feed back from this site that those that are not edited before publishing. It also qualifies everything on this site as having "literary merit"

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Neta613 said...
May 4, 2011 at 9:26 pm

I think that the world is just not used to nice people lik Authorgal98 and lyssa28

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xoteryn said...
Apr. 30, 2011 at 12:48 pm

I'm actually relieved to read this. I was worried I just wasn't getting approval because I submitted mine like 2 weeks ago and have gotten nothing in response lol

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EllieGrace said...
Apr. 13, 2011 at 9:39 pm

That may be, but you have to understand that they get hundreds of articles every day. Which they then must consider for the magazine and more importantly, check for authenticity. Just be patient <3

Aduke9 replied...
Jul. 9, 2012 at 5:32 am

I thought they used that write check program to check for authenticity.

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3moh3art11639 said...
Apr. 9, 2011 at 2:39 pm

RIGHT! i know it takes forever

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