Gigi Will Know

I want to write about the COVID-19 pandemic, but I’m worried literary journal editors are saturated with similar submissions. Do you think that’s the case?
—TIMELY FRETTING

Dear Timely Fretting,

Briefly: No.

OK, fine; here’s why: First, literary magazines do not move fast enough to be timely in any real way. In other words, they’re not pegged to, Medium’s , and the Smarter Living section that they’re still looking for unusual takes on this subject, so literary magazine editors might be, too. Write what you want to.