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From: buzzard@TheWorld.com (Sean T Barrett)
Subject: Re: IF Literary Journals?
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Daryl McCullough <daryl@cogentex.com> wrote:
>I've noticed that there have been a large number of competitions
>for writing IF works on some particular theme, or under some particular
>technical constraints, etc. It seems that most of these receive a tiny
>number of entries--hardly enough to warrant the word "competition".

I could have sworn that a fair number of these weren't
actually competitions--that is, they were called "minicomps",
but there was no voting or judging. However, I can't actually
remember the details of the ones from more than a year ago
or so, and certainly since that time there has been an emphasis
on judging. Obviously things like the IF arcade weren't
competitions, but I was thinking as well of things like
DinoComp.

I think it would be healthy to stop calling these events
"competitions", but I'm not sure anything else needs changing.

SeanB
