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slushpile
n. (context colloquial publishing English) A collection of rejected or unsolicited manuscripts.
Usage examples of "slushpile".
Such manuscripts go from the slushpile to return mail, usually with nothing more than a standard rejection notice on them.
When I was a magazine editor I personally read all the incoming manuscripts, especially the slushpile.
It is distressingly true that many, many slushpile stories lack such organization.