In fact, it would probably have been on the slush pile at a talent agency.

Were any of them inspired by the slush pile at the Review?

He took an interest in my writing - apparently I had been picked out of the slush pile.

That's why she got published, picked straight out of the slush pile so quickly.

She also read the slush piles for all the magazines, and was quickly given more responsibility.

Not all houses agree on exactly what constitutes a slush pile.

Yes, the ones that have probably sat in literary agents' slush piles for years.

It sat on the slush pile until a staff member said, "Boss, you should read this."

If you have something good, really good, what's it doing in the slush pile?

He's a newly hot book editor who pulled a best seller from the slush pile.

But some do, and there are rewards for those who slog through the slush piles.

On one hand, "slush pile" authors who haven't yet published will offer their work online because it is cheap and easy.

And yet the slush pile is a most democratic institution, the literary equivalent of equal opportunity.

Our slush pile fairly often yields stories that merit serious consideration.

As one of many "author" who's books didn't get off the slush pile, this article defies belief.

I'd sooner listen to people who read manuscripts every day for a living and know from personal experience what the slush pile contains.

In addition to writing, he worked at various times as a hospital orderly, computer consultant, slush pile reader, and copy editor.

But we do not actively search through the slush pile for anything but good writing."

"The first play of mine that was done professionally was chosen from a slush pile," he says.

Many no longer have enough staff to wade through what they call the "slush pile" of unsolicited manuscripts.

The three-year-old writers' group, she noted, might help get their manuscripts off an editor's slush pile.

At the democratic extreme, blogs are a nightmare vision of a publishing house's "slush pile" come to life.

This was part of the slush pile.

Referring to the agent who said that 99.9 percent of books in the slush pile are from persons who cannot write?

Her first book was published by Silhouette Books in 1981 after an editor picked it out of their slush pile.