Heeeeey. So, I've been batting this idea around and there are enthusiasts and then of course skeptics.
I hate that The Paris Review probably gets 20,000 submissions for every 20 or 50 stories or poems that they post.
Same with Granta.
Same with the New Yorker.
I mean who are these gatekeepers, anyway?
The reason they don't have enough room is because they aren't PAID.
Can we create a better model?
Can we incentivize readers with tokens and then incentivize writers by paying them?
Can we find a happy medium between a free-for-all like Medium and then the elitism of the traditional literary magazines?
If so, have any ideas?