The crack team of number-crunchers at Virginia Quarterly Review has been at it again! Waldo Jaquith, picking up on Ken Larimer’s idea in Poets & Writers, has determined VQR’s “x-factor” — the percentage of submissions received that are completely inappropriate for the magazine.
It turns out that VQR has a surprisingly low x-factor — only 4.6%. Submit to VQR, and you’re in a pool with people who know what they’re doing. Better sharpen your pencils, it’s going to be a tough fight.
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I hope other publications are willing to name their x-factor, assuming they have the means to calculate it. I think it’s pretty interesting.
Yeah, I agree with Waldo. I’d like to see others’, too.
I need a list of those high x-factor magazines so I’ll know where to submit