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2025-11-05T15:31:35Z

Poetry Rejections

2025-11-05T15:29:39Z

Poetry Rejections

2025-11-05T15:29:22Z

Poetry Rejections

2025-11-05T15:28:04Z

Standard

2025-11-05T15:27:21Z

Poetry Rejections

2025-11-05T15:26:57Z

Higher Tier

2024-05-03T20:15:22Z

Standard

2024-05-03T20:14:44Z

Prose Rejections

2019-12-12T17:02:09Z

Prose Rejections

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Standard: adding year

← Older revision		Revision as of 15:31, 5 November 2025
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	== Poetry Rejections ==		== Poetry Rejections ==

		+	=== Standard ===
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		+	'''2025'''
		+	<blockquote>
		+	Dear ___,
		+
		+	Thank you for submitting "___," "___," and "___" to Bellevue Literary Review, and for your patience during review. We are grateful for the opportunity to read your work and regret we are unable to accept it for publication at this time.
		+
		+	Our editorial staff gives careful consideration to every submission. Unfortunately, given the volume we receive, we find we must often decline quality writing.
		+
		+	We wish you the best in placing this work elsewhere.
		+
		+	Sincerely,
		+
		+	The Editors
		+	Bellevue Literary Review
		+	www.BLReview.org
		+
		+	</blockquote>

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 <blockquote>
-Dear ___,
+Dear ____,
-Thank you for submitting "___" "___" and "___" to Bellevue Literary Review, and for your patience during review.  We are grateful for the opportunity to read your work and regret we are unable to accept it for publication at this time.
+Thank you for submitting your work to the Bellevue Literary Review, and for your patience during the very long review.
-Our editorial staff gives careful consideration to every submission. Unfortunately, given the volume we receive, we find we must often decline quality writing.
+We appreciate the efforts that have gone into this poem. We considered it strongly, and are sorry not to be able to use it.
-We wish you the best in placing this work elsewhere.
+We wish you luck in placing this elsewhere, and apologize for the long delay in getting back to you -- we try to have several reviewers for every piece, and unfortunately the turnaround times can add up. We appreciate your patience.
 Sincerely,
 The Editors
-The Editors
+</blockquote>

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	www.BLReview.org		www.BLReview.org
	<blockquote>		<blockquote>
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−	~~=== Higher Tier ===~~
−	~~'''2016'''~~
−	~~<blockquote>~~
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−	~~Dear ____,~~
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−	~~Thank you for submitting your work to the Bellevue Literary Review, and for your patience during the very long review.~~
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−	~~We appreciate the efforts that have gone into this poem. We considered it strongly, and are sorry not to be able to use it.~~
−
−	We wish you luck in placing this elsewhere, and apologize for the long delay in getting back to you -- we try to have several reviewers for every piece, and unfortunately the turnaround times can add up. We appreciate your patience.
−
−	~~Sincerely,~~
−	~~The Editors~~
−	~~</blockquote>~~

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 www.BLReview.org
+<blockquote>
 === Higher Tier ===

← Older revision		Revision as of 15:27, 5 November 2025
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	== Poetry Rejections ==		== Poetry Rejections ==
		+
		+
		+	=== Standard ===
		+
		+	'''2025'''
		+
		+	<blockquote>
		+
		+	Dear ___,
		+
		+	Thank you for submitting "___" "___" and "___" to Bellevue Literary Review, and for your patience during review. We are grateful for the opportunity to read your work and regret we are unable to accept it for publication at this time.
		+
		+	Our editorial staff gives careful consideration to every submission. Unfortunately, given the volume we receive, we find we must often decline quality writing.
		+
		+	We wish you the best in placing this work elsewhere.
		+
		+	Sincerely,
		+
		+	The Editors
		+
		+	Bellevue Literary Review
		+
		+	www.BLReview.org

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 Dear —,
-Thank you for submitting "The Promise of Paris" to Bellevue Literary Review. We appreciate the efforts that have gone into this work and your patience during the review process.
+Thank you for submitting [your work] to Bellevue Literary Review. We appreciate the efforts that have gone into this work and your patience during the review process.
 Unfortunately, given the volume of submissions we receive, even quality work often has to be declined. Please know that your piece was read thoroughly and given careful consideration by our editorial staff.

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 === Standard ===
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 <blockquote>
 Dear —,
-Thank you for submitting your work to the Bellevue Literary Review. We appreciate the efforts that have gone into this piece.
+Thank you for submitting "The Promise of Paris" to Bellevue Literary Review. We appreciate the efforts that have gone into this work and your patience during the review process.
-Unfortunately, given the volume of submissions we receive, even quality work often has to be declined. Please be assured that your piece was read thoroughly and given careful consideration by our editorial staff.
+Unfortunately, given the volume of submissions we receive, even quality work often has to be declined. Please know that your piece was read thoroughly and given careful consideration by our editorial staff.
-We wish you luck in placing this elsewhere, and apologize for not being able to offer a personal reply.
+We wish you luck with this, and thanks for giving us the chance to read it.
 Sincerely,

← Older revision		Revision as of 17:02, 12 December 2019
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	The Editors		The Editors
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		+	</blockquote>
		+
		+	=== Higher Tier ===
		+
		+	2019
		+
		+	<blockquote>
		+
		+	Dear ___,
		+
		+	Thank you for submitting your work to the Bellevue Literary Review, and apologies for the long delay in replying.
		+
		+	Your piece made it to our final pile; very few submissions get that far, so it is a real testament to your writing (and is the reason it’s taken so long to get back to you). We had several reviewers read your work and considered it strongly. Unfortunately, given the volume of submissions we receive, even quality work often has to be declined. We really enjoyed your piece, and appreciate the opportunity to have read it.
		+
		+	Here are some reviewer comments, which we hope you'll find helpful:
		+

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