Submittable

Submittable is like Dickens’ Bleak House. No it’s not a porn site. Would that it were capable of dispensing that level of pleasurable displeasure. No, rather it's tantamount to the hip dysplasia hounds suffer making it impossible for the poor animals to walk, then they are put down. This is a long-winded way of describing a site that is a concentration camp for poems and short stories. Magazines such as The New Yorker and literary journals like The Paris Review are deluged with tsunamis of submissions from wannabes. These wannabes have no real understanding of the editors who they scream to from the wrong side of the velvet rope. There is an organization called The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP). That and a number of similar organizations must have had a summit in which Submittable was created  to deal with the flood of manuscripts they receive. Know those storage facilities filled with items no one will ever see again. Submittable is the DOGE of the world of letters. Perhaps you remember BicycleThieves (1948), the Italian neorealist film about a father and son's desperate search for a stolen bicycle in post-war Rome. That’s a perfect description of what it’s like to submit to Submissible.

read "The Wasteland" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star

and also read "Punk" by Francis Levy, Vol.1 Brooklyn