Publish and be damned!

[Neville Briggs]

GLENNY ! You're back. Happy Birthday for last month , when you turned .. my lips are sealed

That's the trouble with rules, they tend not to fix things, just create rule breakers and create an ever increasing complexity of defining and and interpreting.

I think Glenny's suggestion of having judging panels is a very good suggestion. After all we have judging panels in the performance comps and in those performance comps, both the participants and the performance pieces are often recycled and well known before hand.
They don't need rules about previous exposure. Do they ?

Long live the antinomian revolution.

[David Campbell]

Stephen: I think the respective answers are probably "yes" and "no". You've now profited from the first, albeit belatedly, even though it wasn't originally published with that intent. But there has been no financial gain related to the other poems on the blog.

Heather and Glenny: Excellent points.

As a PS to yesterday's post about my reply to the short story competition organiser, I've received his answer. Unsurprisingly, it was his view that the publication rule was there to "encourage new work to be submitted". So I've pointed out how unrealistic this becomes if a whole lot of competitions have the same expectation. We have to pick and choose which competitions we enter, depending on material available, and those with overly restrictive rules may well miss out.

Cheers
David

[manfredvijars]

... We have to pick and choose which competitions we enter, depending on material available, and those with overly restrictive rules may well miss out.

And so say all of us!! ...