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== Prose rejections ==
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== About ==
2018 nonfiction
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The Chicago Review of Books presents Arcturus, an online literary magazine of new perspectives in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid genres.
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My name is Madeleine Carlisle and I’m an editorial fellow with The Atlantic. Thank you for submitting your pitch xxxx. Unfortunately, we’ll have to pass on the piece, but we encourage you to pitch us again in the future!
 
  
Best of luck placing it elsewhere.
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Inspired by Chicago’s early modernist literary magazines like The Dial (1880), Poetry (1912), and The Little Review (1914), we’ve published a diverse array of writers and poets since our founding in 2016, including Kristine Ong Muslim, Scott Blackwood, Allegra Hyde, Berit Ellingsen, Daniel Peña, Maryse Meijer, Sam Weller, Michelle Pretorious, Ting Gou, and many others.
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'''2018'''
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== Standard ==
  
=== Personal ===
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2025
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<blockquote>Dear [Author],
  
<blockquote>Dear [Name]:
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Thank you for giving us the opportunity to read and consider your submission. We regret that we won’t be able to publish it in Arcturus. We realize a lot of time and talent go into every piece, so we appreciate you trusting us to read and discuss your work. We wish you best of luck with this submission and the rest of your creative work and hope you will keep Arcturus in mind as a future home for your writing.
  
“Title” is literate and knowing, though a bit long for Atlantic purposes and not entirely persuasive.  You’re plainly a writer, however, and I hope you’ll try us again.
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Thanks again,
 
Yours,
 
  
Michael Curtis
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Rachel León
Fiction Editor, The Atlantic.</blockquote>
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Arcturus Fiction Director</blockquote>
 
 
 
 
'''2011'''
 
 
 
=== Standard ===
 
 
 
<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 ===
 
 
 
As above with handwritten note on rejection slip.
 

Revision as of 15:16, 9 November 2025

About

The Chicago Review of Books presents Arcturus, an online literary magazine of new perspectives in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid genres.

Inspired by Chicago’s early modernist literary magazines like The Dial (1880), Poetry (1912), and The Little Review (1914), we’ve published a diverse array of writers and poets since our founding in 2016, including Kristine Ong Muslim, Scott Blackwood, Allegra Hyde, Berit Ellingsen, Daniel Peña, Maryse Meijer, Sam Weller, Michelle Pretorious, Ting Gou, and many others.

Standard

2025

Dear [Author],

Thank you for giving us the opportunity to read and consider your submission. We regret that we won’t be able to publish it in Arcturus. We realize a lot of time and talent go into every piece, so we appreciate you trusting us to read and discuss your work. We wish you best of luck with this submission and the rest of your creative work and hope you will keep Arcturus in mind as a future home for your writing.

Thanks again,

Rachel León

Arcturus Fiction Director