When submissions are accepted for publication in the magazine, the author will receive an email.  Each new submission is inserted into first place (by the automatic vote placed on your behalf by the system), and thus pushes the then-last-place item off the list.  The author of that piece will receive an email about it.

If you’d like to see where a submission stands in the list, click the >> widget (in your ticket on the right side) to re-read it, and the ranking should appear at the top, just under the title.  If it isn’t in your list yet, keep voting until it is.  In fact, at this time, it does NOT show the ranking, so I’m working on fixing it.  Thanks for your patience…

And thanks to Sheila for asking me to clarify this!