ABSTRACT
The peer review process is considered a guarantee of quality when it comes to the publication of articles in an academic journal. As the founder and editor of Short Fiction in Theory and Practice, the author relies on peer review comments on critical, theoretical and practice-led submissions, including some creative pieces. As far as possible, both authors and reviewers remain anonymous during this process. This chapter includes a discussion of the benefits and frustrations of these masked identities; and the circumstances in which anonymity is unavoidably compromised, particularly in the case of writers reflecting on their own process. The author also discusses the difficulties fiction writers sometimes have in articulating their own poetics without falling into the trap of post-event analysis.
