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I made my submission, but it didn't ask for a reading fee.

First thing to do is to log in and click on My Submissions to see if your story is listed and under what category. (Standard? competition? There are no reading fees for standard submissions.)

If the story is not listed at all, here are three possible reasons for this:

You may have uploaded the file, but not followed the process through to completion. (You may have to scroll down to see the button that seals the deal.)

If you took a long time to complete your submission (got distracted maybe or spent time typing in your cover letter instead of copying and pasting it in place), you may have "timed out." If you think that might be the case, and the one-week grace period at the end of that reading period has not passed, please just start over.

Sometimes people have inadvertently set up more than one account for themselves so they've submitted in one account, but looked for that story in another account under a different email address. If that sounds possible and you still use both email addresses, send for a password reminder (right there at the site) and you'll be sent your login info so you can check the other account. No luck? Let me know what email addresses you've used and I'll look for you.

If it's listed as a standard, you submitted it to the standard category for which there is no reading fee. If you intended to submit it as a standard, then all is well. If you didn't want to do that, let me know the document number I should cancel. (To cancel a standard submission, I "reject" it, unread, just to clear it out.)

If you meant to make a competition submission, and just accidentally submitted it to the standard category, start fresh now and just be sure to click on the name of the category to which you would like to submit the story. (Competition submissions are, by the way, automatically considered as standards as well.)

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