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Atlantic

2011-06-25T22:15:25Z

Mw1982: Created page with "== Prose == '''2011''' === Standard Rejection === <blockquote>Though the manuscript you sent has not found a place in The Atlantic, we thank you for the chance to consider it...."

== Prose ==

'''2011'''

=== Standard Rejection ===

<blockquote>Though the manuscript you sent has not found a place in The Atlantic, we thank you for the chance to consider it. Best of luck in placing it elsewhere.</blockquote>

=== Personal Rejection ===

<blockquote>Though the manuscript you sent has not found a place in The Atlantic, we thank you for the chance to consider it. Best of luck in placing it elsewhere. (Written by hand beneath) '''sorry/close''' </blockquote>

Literary Journals and Rejections

2011-06-25T22:09:27Z

Mw1982:

== Literary Journals and Rejection Letters ==
If you add journals to the list, please keep them in alphabetical order.

== A ==
* [[A Public Space]]
* [[Agni]]
* [[American Short Fiction]]
* [[Annalemma Magazine]]
* [[Antioch Review]]
* [[Arch]]
* [[Arts & Letters]]
* [[Ascent]]
* [[Atlantic]]
* [[Avery Anthology]]

== B ==
* [[Barnwood]]
* [[Barrelhouse]]
* [[Baltimore Review]]
* [[Barn Owl Review]]
* [[Bat City Review]]
* [[Black Clock]]
* [[Black Warrior Review]]
* [[Blackbird]]
* [[BLIP]]
* [[Blue Mesa Review]]
* [[Boston Review]]
* [[Boulevard]]
* [[Brain, Child]]
* [[Brevity]]

== C ==
* [[Caketrain]]
* [[CALYX Journal]]
* [[Camera Obscura]]
* [[Carolina Wren Press]]
* [[Carolina Quarterly]]
* [[Clarkesworld]]
* [[The Collagist]]
* [[Colorado Review]]
* [[Contrary]]
* [[Corium]]
* [[Crab Orchard Review]]
* [[Crazyhorse]]
* [[Cream City Review]]
* [[Cutbank Literary Journal]]

== D ==

* [[Daily Science Fiction]]
* [[DIAGRAM]]

== E ==

* [[echolocation]]
* [[Electric Literature]]
* [[Emprise Review]]

== F ==

* [[Failbetter]]
* [[Fence]]
* [[The Fiddlehead]]
* [[The First Line]]
* [[Five Points]]
* [[The Florida Review]]
* [[Flyway]]
* [[Freshwater]]

== G ==

* [[Gargoyle]]
* [[Georgia Review]]
* [[Gettysburg Review]]
* [[Glimmer Train]]
* [[Granta]]
* [[Grasslimb Journal]]
* [[Greensboro Review]]
* [[Grist]]
* [[Gulf Coast]]
* [[Gulf Stream]]

== H ==

* [[Harper's]]
* [[Harpur Palate]]
* [[Hayden's Ferry Review]]
* [[Here]]
* [[Hiram Poetry Review]]
* [[Hobart]]
* [[Hobart (Online)]]
* [[The Hudson Review]]
* [[Hunger Mountain]]

== I ==

* [[Indiana Review]]
* [[Iowa Review]]

== J ==

* [[The Journal]]
* [[jubilat]]

== K ==

* [[Kenyon Review]]
* [[Keyhole Magazine]]
* [[kill author]]

== L ==

* [[La Petite Zine]]
* [[Lumina]]

== M ==

* [[The MacGuffin]]
* [[matchbook]]
* [[McSweeney's Internet Tendency]]
* [[McSweeney's Quarterly]]
* [[Memoir (and)]]
* [[Mid-American Review]]
* [[The Mississippi Review]]
* [[The Missouri Review]]
* [[Monkeybicycle]]
* [[Mslexia]]
* [[Muzzle]]

== N ==
* [[Narrative]]
* [[New England Review]]
* [[New Orleans Review]]
* [[New York Quarterly]]
* [[The New Yorker]]
* [[Nimrod]]
* [[Ninth Letter]]
* [[NO COLONY]]
* [[NOO Journal]]
* [[The Normal School]]
* [[North American Review]]
* [[Not One of Us]]
* [[Notre Dame Review]]

== O ==
* [[One Story]]
* [[Opium]]
* [[Orion]]

== P ==
* [[Painted Bride Quarterly]]
* [[Palooka]]
* [[PANK]]
* [[Paris Review]]
* [[Pedestal Magazine]]
* [[Ploughshares]]
* [[Poetry Magazine]]
* [[Post Road]]
* [[A Public Space]]

== Q ==

* [[Quarterly West]]
* [[Quick Fiction]]

== R ==

* [[Rattle]]
* [[Redheaded Stepchild]]
* [[Redivider]]

== S ==
* [[Saint Ann's Review / tsarina]]
* [[Slice Magazine]]
* [[Smartish Pace]]
* [[SmokeLong Quarterly]]
* [[Sonora Review]]
* [[South Dakota Review]]
* [[Southeast Review]]
* [[Southern Humanities Review]]
* [[The Southern Review]]
* [[Sou'wester]]
* [[Story Quarterly]]
* [[storySouth]]
* [[Strange Horizons]]
* [[Subtropics]]
* [[Summerset Review]]
* [[The Sun Magazine]]
* [[Swink]]
* [[Sycamore Review]]

== T ==

* [[Third Coast]]
* [[Threepenny Review]]
* [[Tikkun]]
* [[Tin House]]

== U ==

* [[Underground Voices]]
* [[Unsaid Magazine]]

== V ==

* [[Versal]]
* [[Vestal Review]]
* [[Virginia Quarterly Review]]

== W ==

* [[West Branch]]
* [[Willow Springs]]
* [[Witness]]
* [[Word Riot]]

== X ==

== Y ==

* [[Yale Review]]

== Z ==

* [[Zoetrope: All-Story]]

== 123 (Non-alphabetic titles) ==

Narrative

2011-06-25T22:04:43Z

Mw1982: /* Slightly Higher Tier */

== Prose rejections ==

=== Standard ===
<blockquote> Thank you for sending your work to Narrative. We are always grateful for the opportunity to review new work, and we have given "X" close attention and careful consideration. We regret, however, that "X" does not meet our needs at this time. We hope that you will keep us in mind in the future.</blockquote>

=== Slightly Higher Tier ===

<blockquote>Thank you for sending your work to Narrative. We are always grateful for the opportunity to review new material, and we have given "X" close reading and careful consideration. We found many strengths to recommend your work and, overall, much to admire. We regret, however, that "X" is not quite right for us. We encourage you try us again in the future, and we hope that you will.</blockquote>

=== Personal Rejection ===

<blockquote>Hello Blank,

Greetings from Narrative Magazine! We’re contacting you today in regard to your Open Reading Period 2010 submission “Blank,” which received close and careful consideration from our editorial staff. First of all, we want to thank you for your patience throughout the entire consideration process—we received far more submissions than we’d accounted for, and thus the consideration period was drawn out a bit longer than we would typically prefer. That said, the fact that it has taken this long to respond simply means that your work received a very large amount of attention from all of us here at the magazine.

In the end, we have decided to pass on “Blank,” but wanted to contact you personally with the hope of soliciting more work from you in the future. Please be assured that your story was very close, and many of our editors fought tooth and nail on its behalf. It’s clear that you’re an excellent writer and we’d love to see more of your writing going forward. Please let us know if you are interested in being in contact with one of our staff members in order to facilitate a more direct line of communication.

Thanks again for sending your work, Blank, we’re certainly honored to have had the chance to consider it for publication. We’ll look forward to hearing back from you and hope you have a wonderful week in the interim.

Best,

The Editors</blockquote>

Electric Literature

2011-06-25T21:58:52Z

Mw1982: /* Higher Tier */

== Prose Rejections ==

----

'''Standard'''

We thank you for submitting your story, "---," to Electric Literature, though it was not chosen for publication in our journal.

We are committed to publishing short stories by both new and more established writers, and hope that you will consider sending us your best work in the future.

Sincerely,

Editors,
Electric Literature

=== Higher Tier ===

<blockquote>

We thank you for submitting your story, "X," to Electric Literature. Unfortunately, it was not chosen for publication at this time.

We are committed to publishing short stories by both new and more established writers, and trust that you will consider sending us your best work in the future.

Sincerely,

Editors

We admired the prose, its spareness and lovely rhythms, though it did feel as if the narrative momentum were lagging in places, while the story revolves around the one conflict whose resolution never occurs. Not that we need to see what happens, but there needs to be more foreground than only the protag's memories and anticipations. Very compelling point of view, though.</blockquote>

=== Another High Tier ===

<blockquote>Dear Blank,

We regret to say that "Blank" was not ultimately selected for publication in Electric Literature, although it did reach the final editorial round of an extremely competitive selection process.

Thank you for submitting,
Andy & Scott
Editors
Electric Literature
325 Gold St. Suite 303
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Twitter: @electriclit</blockquote>

Orion

2011-06-25T21:56:02Z

Mw1982: /* Prose */

== Prose ==

=== Personal Rejection ===

<blockquote> Dear Blank,

Thank you for giving us the opportunity to consider your manuscript "Blank." This is a gripping and memorable story; the voice is strong and the narrative gritty, raw, and evocative.

This piece is not quite a fit for Orion, but please look for fiction forthcoming in the magazine and submit again in the future, if you would like.

We wish you the best in placing this work elsewhere and appreciate your consideration of our magazine as a home for your writing.

Sincerely,

Erica Dorpalen

for the Editorial Staff</blockquote>

Orion

2011-06-25T21:55:48Z

Mw1982: /* Personal Rejection */

=== Prose ===

=== Personal Rejection ===

<blockquote> Dear Blank,

Thank you for giving us the opportunity to consider your manuscript "Blank." This is a gripping and memorable story; the voice is strong and the narrative gritty, raw, and evocative.

This piece is not quite a fit for Orion, but please look for fiction forthcoming in the magazine and submit again in the future, if you would like.

We wish you the best in placing this work elsewhere and appreciate your consideration of our magazine as a home for your writing.

Sincerely,

Erica Dorpalen

for the Editorial Staff</blockquote>

Orion

2011-06-25T21:54:24Z

Mw1982: Created page with "=== Prose === == Personal Rejection == Dear Blank, Thank you for giving us the opportunity to consider your manuscript "Blank." This is a gripping and memorable story; the vo..."

=== Prose ===

== Personal Rejection ==

Dear Blank,

Thank you for giving us the opportunity to consider your manuscript "Blank." This is a gripping and memorable story; the voice is strong and the narrative gritty, raw, and evocative.

This piece is not quite a fit for Orion, but please look for fiction forthcoming in the magazine and submit again in the future, if you would like.

We wish you the best in placing this work elsewhere and appreciate your consideration of our magazine as a home for your writing.

Sincerely,

Erica Dorpalen

for the Editorial Staff

Literary Journals and Rejections

2011-06-25T21:51:36Z

Mw1982:

== Literary Journals and Rejection Letters ==
If you add journals to the list, please keep them in alphabetical order.

== A ==
* [[A Public Space]]
* [[Agni]]
* [[American Short Fiction]]
* [[Annalemma Magazine]]
* [[Antioch Review]]
* [[Arch]]
* [[Arts & Letters]]
* [[Ascent]]
* [[Avery Anthology]]

== B ==
* [[Barnwood]]
* [[Barrelhouse]]
* [[Baltimore Review]]
* [[Barn Owl Review]]
* [[Bat City Review]]
* [[Black Clock]]
* [[Black Warrior Review]]
* [[Blackbird]]
* [[BLIP]]
* [[Blue Mesa Review]]
* [[Boston Review]]
* [[Boulevard]]
* [[Brain, Child]]
* [[Brevity]]

== C ==
* [[Caketrain]]
* [[CALYX Journal]]
* [[Camera Obscura]]
* [[Carolina Wren Press]]
* [[Carolina Quarterly]]
* [[Clarkesworld]]
* [[The Collagist]]
* [[Colorado Review]]
* [[Contrary]]
* [[Corium]]
* [[Crab Orchard Review]]
* [[Crazyhorse]]
* [[Cream City Review]]
* [[Cutbank Literary Journal]]

== D ==

* [[Daily Science Fiction]]
* [[DIAGRAM]]

== E ==

* [[echolocation]]
* [[Electric Literature]]
* [[Emprise Review]]

== F ==

* [[Failbetter]]
* [[Fence]]
* [[The Fiddlehead]]
* [[The First Line]]
* [[Five Points]]
* [[The Florida Review]]
* [[Flyway]]
* [[Freshwater]]

== G ==

* [[Gargoyle]]
* [[Georgia Review]]
* [[Gettysburg Review]]
* [[Glimmer Train]]
* [[Granta]]
* [[Grasslimb Journal]]
* [[Greensboro Review]]
* [[Grist]]
* [[Gulf Coast]]
* [[Gulf Stream]]

== H ==

* [[Harper's]]
* [[Harpur Palate]]
* [[Hayden's Ferry Review]]
* [[Here]]
* [[Hiram Poetry Review]]
* [[Hobart]]
* [[Hobart (Online)]]
* [[The Hudson Review]]
* [[Hunger Mountain]]

== I ==

* [[Indiana Review]]
* [[Iowa Review]]

== J ==

* [[The Journal]]
* [[jubilat]]

== K ==

* [[Kenyon Review]]
* [[Keyhole Magazine]]
* [[kill author]]

== L ==

* [[La Petite Zine]]
* [[Lumina]]

== M ==

* [[The MacGuffin]]
* [[matchbook]]
* [[McSweeney's Internet Tendency]]
* [[McSweeney's Quarterly]]
* [[Memoir (and)]]
* [[Mid-American Review]]
* [[The Mississippi Review]]
* [[The Missouri Review]]
* [[Monkeybicycle]]
* [[Mslexia]]
* [[Muzzle]]

== N ==
* [[Narrative]]
* [[New England Review]]
* [[New Orleans Review]]
* [[New York Quarterly]]
* [[The New Yorker]]
* [[Nimrod]]
* [[Ninth Letter]]
* [[NO COLONY]]
* [[NOO Journal]]
* [[The Normal School]]
* [[North American Review]]
* [[Not One of Us]]
* [[Notre Dame Review]]

== O ==
* [[One Story]]
* [[Opium]]
* [[Orion]]

== P ==
* [[Painted Bride Quarterly]]
* [[Palooka]]
* [[PANK]]
* [[Paris Review]]
* [[Pedestal Magazine]]
* [[Ploughshares]]
* [[Poetry Magazine]]
* [[Post Road]]
* [[A Public Space]]

== Q ==

* [[Quarterly West]]
* [[Quick Fiction]]

== R ==

* [[Rattle]]
* [[Redheaded Stepchild]]
* [[Redivider]]

== S ==
* [[Saint Ann's Review / tsarina]]
* [[Slice Magazine]]
* [[Smartish Pace]]
* [[SmokeLong Quarterly]]
* [[Sonora Review]]
* [[South Dakota Review]]
* [[Southeast Review]]
* [[Southern Humanities Review]]
* [[The Southern Review]]
* [[Sou'wester]]
* [[Story Quarterly]]
* [[storySouth]]
* [[Strange Horizons]]
* [[Subtropics]]
* [[Summerset Review]]
* [[The Sun Magazine]]
* [[Swink]]
* [[Sycamore Review]]

== T ==

* [[Third Coast]]
* [[Threepenny Review]]
* [[Tikkun]]
* [[Tin House]]

== U ==

* [[Underground Voices]]
* [[Unsaid Magazine]]

== V ==

* [[Versal]]
* [[Vestal Review]]
* [[Virginia Quarterly Review]]

== W ==

* [[West Branch]]
* [[Willow Springs]]
* [[Witness]]
* [[Word Riot]]

== X ==

== Y ==

* [[Yale Review]]

== Z ==

* [[Zoetrope: All-Story]]

== 123 (Non-alphabetic titles) ==

A Public Space

2011-06-25T21:49:53Z

Mw1982: /* Standard */

"A Public Space is an independent magazine of literature and culture. Founded in 2005, the magazine is a forum for new ideas and new conversations, and each issue brings together a wide range of global voices to tell the stories of the twenty-first century."

== Prose Rejections ==

=== Standard ===

'''2010'''

<blockquote>
Thank you for submitting work to A Public Space. Although this submission
isn't right for the magazine, we appreciate the opportunity to consider it and wish you all the best.

Sincerely,

A Public Space</blockquote>

'''2011'''

<blockquote>Thank you for thinking of A Public Space for your writing. We aren't the right magazine for this work, but appreciate the chance to consider it.

To learn more about goings-on at A Public Space, please visit your local bookstore to find our latest issue, visit us online at www.apublicspace.org or join us on Twitter @apublicspace.

With very best wishes,
A Public Space </blockquote>

=== Personal ===

<blockquote>Dear blank,

Thanks so much for submitting “Blank” to APS, and our apologies for taking so long to reply. The story received careful consideration here, but we finally decided it wasn't quite right for the magazine. We would, however, be interested in reading more of your work.

Congratulations on all the publishing success you've had this year.

Best,

Katie Assef
A Public Space</blockquote>