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How Long Submissions Take to be Approved
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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My best advice is to treat Teen Ink as more of a literary magazine when you submit work, and not like an average writing website. You should publish mainly on websites that don't review every submission, and submit your best work to Teen Ink in hopes that you may be published in print. Don't give up if your first 10 stories don't make it onto the print magazine; keep on sending in your favourite works.
I believe I've had four pieces that were not accepted to the website. Two of them were collaborations (you can't post work on behalf of others), one had references to suicide (it's against the rules to talk about suicide), and one was an opinion piece that I guess was seen as top offensive.
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