Note to our submitters -

Is 12gauge.com ignoring me?

No.  12gauge.com has been going through much internal organizational change for the past year (read Open Letter from Publisher), and we have not been able to respond to some of our submitters and inquirers in a timely manner, as we are currently understaffed.  We regret this deeply.  Also, more specifically, we have been hit with a couple of very serious problems.

The first concerns electronic submissions (via our submission engine, or through default regular email).  We have encouraged and still do encourage everyone to submit via our online submission process, since this is the only way that an unsolicited submission gets logged in our database, and our editors can work collaboratively online.

However, in May of this year, our offsite application & database server suffered a catastrophic failure, and the hosting company subsequently went out of business.  When we restored the data from backup, online submission information from February to May of this year was missing.  Unless you have included your contact info on the attached submission itself (which we ask you to do), we do not have contact info for many of the attached entries which were submitted during February to May of this year.

The other problem concerns snail mail submissions.  During the many staff changes over the course of this year, about half a dozen snail mail submissions, most of them poetry, became inexplicably missing from our office.  Our policy is to treat each submission with attention and to reply every submitter, therefore this mishap is uncharacteristic of us. 

If you have submitted via either the submission engine (only 2/01 to 5/01) or via postal mail and haven't heard back from us in a reasonable time, please contact us, <>Contact Page (replace 'at' with the appropriate symbol when emailing), with subject heading: Missing Submission?  And better yet, resubmit directly via email to <>Contact Page (replace 'at' with the appropriate symbol when emailing) with subject heading: Re-Submission.   Please include a brief note saying that you had submitted to us via either the online engine or postal mail in the past, and suspect that it maybe one of the missing ones.

Thank you very much for your assistance and understanding.

--Your Humble & Newly Resolved 12gauge.com Editors

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