
Beware the Clique
A Clique (click) is an excluseive group that wont let anyone else join in.
Sometimes you will come across these groups and they have the same
people in their publications year in and year out, they dont answer their
emails and they dont (Really) accept outside submissions.
You may feel bad about having your work turned down by some organisations
but you are better off not being anywhere near a clique.
If an organisaiton or publicaiton does not accept new work and sticks to their
mates or friends and doesnt let anyone new in, they are useless and will
stangnate and fade into obscurity. Its a kind of artistic inbreeding, they
and their work are doomed.
The unfortunate thing is that some cliques keep on publishing and publishing
and look really successful, but I assure you they are going nowhere, and as
nobody but the people involved in the publication are interested in it, no one
new can discover them and they have very little international exposure.
And exposure is what you want. What is the point in producing lots and
lots of work or poetry or literature if only the people involved in the publication
read it. You are an artist to be discovered and to let the maximum amount of
people read or view your work.
So dont worry about cliques and their little groups and publications, they are
going nowhere, they are fooling themselves. You are better off without them,
and if you are in a clique, get out, there is so much more you can do with your work...
RUN !!!!!!!
BEWARE THE CLIQUE !!!!!!
