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

I do not want to add to the slush pile.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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