Why do some stories get accepted and others passed over? Kenyon Review magazine editors explain why they took a recent story.
. . .is reading in a very different way than we do for pleasure or for a classroom assignment, where the concern is what a text “means.” Differently too from reading as a writer, where the challenge is to figure out how a piece works. Instead, our Associates must learn to read as an editor, evaluating the surprise and delight and mastery offered by a story or poem or essay.
Find out the terrible secret of what editors are thinking as they read. Read, ““Why We Chose It”.
The link is broke. I’d love to read it.