Some things have been occurring to me regarding slush reading. Namely, the fair treatment of the authors whose work is submitted to a fiction outlet, and the prevention of abuses in the handling of their manuscripts.
In all the diverse complexity of this world we live in, I can imagine that in some instances a slush-reading situation could go horribly awry. Say one of the readers is an aspiring writer, is "inspired" by one of the manuscripts he or she reviews, but the manuscript is ultimately rejected, and after that the slush reader in question writes something that is derivative of the original rejected submission … and next thing you know we have a mess involving claims or plagiarism or what have you. This actually seems like a real-enough concern that I wonder if there is such a thing as a set of "slush reader policies" out there that could be attached to a work or volunteer agreement of some sort. This could theoretically prevent such abuses. I welcome any thoughts or comments on the foregoing. Josh / The Fabulist _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
