Possible Clues:

• Pre-publication wks.
• If such writing were to get one, one would not get them
• Eds. read them
• Modern titles
• New Yorker's pile, briefly
• Without one, the girl seems all right, by the sound of it
• Auth.'s submissions
• Submission to an editor (Abbr.)
• Editor's work: Abbr.
• Eds.' workload