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Heather von Doehren answers a frequently asked question here at Relief: A Quarterly Christian Expression about how long it usually takes for us to respond to submissions.

The Short Answer:

3-4 months.

The Long Answer:

We hope it only takes 3-4 months! It’s just that submissions keep coming in and they’re so inventive and great and it’s so hard to decide and sometimes we get this one piece in and we really like it and then we get another one that sounds kind of like the first one so we decide to give it to another editor for a second opinion/third opinion/fourth opinion and then we just decide, what the heck, we’ll take BOTH pieces and then we have to do the layout and can’t find room for ALL the great pieces so we stop reading them for awhile so we can get to print and then we write blogs with really long sentences which takes a really long TIME and then we realize that there are so many submissions in the database that when we try to access it it just starts groaning at us, all like GROANNNNN and we’re like, what the heck was that? And Coach says, dude, that’s the corpuscle analog that’s discombobulating; it’s all out of kimbo and needs to refuel.  And we’re like, dude, we don’t know what you’re saying just fix it and then he has to fix it and when that happens it sometimes takes five months to respond and then we have to rework the production schedule because we’re so behind and dude look at it:

Do you see that?! I mean everything overlaps! Everything! Overlaps! And that’s just the production schedule! That’s doesn’t account for the website, the blog, the RWN, conferences, the Relief Writer’s Database, budgeting, grant writing, marketing, no! The schedule begins when we start reading and ends when we go to print and being quarterly it all overlaps—it has to—so when we get behind we’re always behind and then we hyperventilate and take turns breathing into a brown paper bag because everyone I’ve ever known says that’s supposed to calm you down but we only have like one paper bag to share between all the editors because we’re too poor to buy more than one brown paper bag and it’s almost July and I haven’t read but a handful of poems for the next reading period and it just never seems to end!

But then we get a nice email from a reader or writer who thanks us for what we do and we’re like “Oh, it’s no problem. We love what we do.” And then everything is okay again.

So, yes, on average it takes about 3-4 months to respond to submissions.

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