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Latest Vote RESULTS + Winners
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Who creates Sixfold? Everyone, and with absolutely the best manuscript reading and selection process for all writers. To create each issue, hundreds of writers’ equally weighted votes choose the best manuscripts with a rigorous, fair, transparent process—one with much better discernment than any other journal’s.
Whoever has the better manuscript wins. Ten completed votes with over 3,000 writers participating show that writers consistently vote only the highest-quality manuscripts to win and publish. In each vote, no high-quality manuscripts are missed. In each vote, voting writers’ final comparative preference for a manuscript equals the overall quality of the manuscript.
How to enter and vote
1. ENTER your own fiction or poetry PDF MANUSCRIPT for $5 by April 23, 11:59 pm ET.
2. For each of 3 rounds, you read, comment, and vote on 6 randomly assigned manuscripts in your genre. Rank-vote your manuscripts as Best, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th. Read and vote all 3 rounds (total of 18 manuscripts in 36 days). Round 1 runs from May 1 to voting deadline of May 12. Round 2 from May 13 to May 24. Round 3 from May 25 to June 5. The first-, second-, and third-highest-voted manuscripts in each genre win $1000, $200, $100. The top-15 short stories and the top-30 sets of poems are published. All issues free to read online, and as e-book and PDF. Paperback is about $10.
Everyone is the editor. And is better than any editor. Hundreds of writers voting choose manuscripts for publication with much better discernment than at any other journal, and it all takes only 36 days. The 3-round process is extremely thorough and precise: In round 1, 6 writer-voters compare your manuscript (and everyone else’s) to 5 other manuscripts, then rank-vote them as Best, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th. (So, each manuscript is compared to 30 others by 6 different readers.) Each manuscript’s voting score average is calculated and compared to all others, and then the highest-voted one-third of manuscripts advances to the next round. Round 2 manuscripts go on to receive 18 readers and 90 comparisons, and the highest-voted one-third advances to round 3. Round 3 manuscripts receive 54 readers and 270 comparisons. Each manuscript completing round 3 is read and rank-voted by 78 different writer-voters, with a grand total of 390 comparisons to other manuscripts. A lot of reading and comparing! And, the most thorough consideration of your manuscript that any journal could offer.
Voters discover the best manuscripts, period. With so much reading and comparison voting, no high-quality manuscripts are missed in a vote. Only the highest-quality manuscripts are selected for publication. See and read for yourself: browse the open, public RESULTS of the 10 fiction and poetry votes completed so far, with over 3,000 writers participating. In each vote, you can see that voters’ relative preference for any manuscript translates to the overall quality of the manuscript. The final rankings of all manuscripts reflect how any editor or editors at any journal would sort the relative quality of total manuscripts submitted.
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