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The Globe and Mail’s In Other Words blog features Brian Joseph Davis and Emily Schultz of Joyland discussing the politics of rejection.

I do feel like there used to be more journals that published not just unknown writers, but writers who were not personally known to their staff. It does still happen of course, but I think it’s rare. I hear you on the homogeneity of what’s being published. I don’t want to be bored. I don’t want to read, “Bob was 32 and had brown hair. He was walking home as he did every night.” Committees foster mediocrity. Already you can imagine a committee of four, and two people are saying with no small amount of defeat, “There’s nothing wrong with it. I kind of like it.”