L'Esprit Literary Review

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Dear ______,

Thank you for your submission to L'Esprit Literary Review. Although we must decline your submission this time, we appreciated the chance to consider it.

We wish you the best of luck placing this piece elsewhere. Thank you for your support of fearless writing.

Consciously,

L'Esprit

Tiered? (Leopold Bloom Prize)

Dear _____,

Thank you for your submission to the 2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration and for helping to support the journal by opting for an expedited response. I am sorry to say your piece has not been selected for the shortlist. We appreciate your patience as we discussed your story among the full team in making our longlist determinations; we received an incredibly strong group of submissions and had hard decisions to make. We wish you the best of luck in placing this elsewhere. Thank you for your support of fearless writing. Consciously, L'Esprit