Hi all,
I've been doing some research on whether or not our work is considered "published" when we post our work for critique on the group. From what I understand it is, especially since anyone can google SheWrites and see our threads,(they can't comment unless they're members). The policy on this group is to start a thread and continue posting our work until we need to start another. This has worked for us so far but it's limiting esp. if we decide to submit our work. We cannot take individual poems down without having to take the entire thread down. I would like to change this policy to poets posting individual threads for each of their poems, that way if anyone submits their work to a magazine they can just take that thread down. I'd really like to hear feedback from other members.
kelli
same name just no space. also I am fiddling with the controls to see how the group works when information is private so don't be offended if it says you have to be approved,anyone can still join, im just checking to see if that control has an effect on privacy.
Hi Kelli and All,
I think this is a great conversation worth having. I've been confronted with the issue recently. It's almost like a double edge sword because when freelance writing they ask for samples of your writing and blog sites. However the magazines say with the exception of workshops if your poems are viewable online it cannot be submitted. I've just accepted the fact that if I think I might submit a particular poem I can’t post it on any forums or any blogs. The unfortunate thing about that is I can't change my mind at a later date and there's a potential to miss out on opportunities to good pieces noticed. There are some magazines who will allow you to do so it may be helpful if we could compile a list of those that do for future reference. To that end it would be nice to see how work could be preserved.