American Short Fiction

Prose rejections

Standard

Thank you for submitting "——" to American Short Fiction.

We regret that we are unable to use it at this time. While the volume of submissions prevents us from responding specifically to your work, we wish you the best of luck in placing it elsewhere.

Sincerely,

The Editors of American Short Fiction

Higher Tier

Dear [Jane Writer]:

Thank you for sending us "Your Story."

This particular piece did not work for us, but we were quite impressed by your writing. We hope that you will send us something else--our regular submissions are open now.

Sorry we've had this for so long, [Jane]!

We look forward to reading more of your work.

Sincerely,

Dear [Name]:

Thank you for sending us "Your Story."

First of all, please accept our apologies for the lateness of this response. While this particular piece wasn't all the way there for us, we were very impressed by your writing. We hope that you will send us something else. Our small team is working diligently to catch up and get our response time to a more reasonable 3-5 months. Our submission schedule can be found on our website at http://americanshortfiction.org/submityourwork/.

We look forward to reading more of your work.

Sincerely,

The Editors, American Short Fiction

Dear[Name],

Thank you again for submitting your work to The American Short(er) Fiction Prize. While we read "Story " with pleasure, we are sorry to say that it did not place as a finalist. We were blown away by the quality of submissions we received this year. Stay tuned for the announcement of the winning stories in the next week.

We consider it a privilege that you shared your work with us. Thank you for reminding us, once again, of the beauty and potential of the short form.

We wish you the best of luck in placing your story elsewhere.

Sincerely,

The Editors, American Short Fiction

Higher Tier

Dear [Writer]:

Thanks for sending "Story" our way. We enjoyed it on this end. It's [positive comments], but we couldn't reach a consensus on the piece and therefore can't offer to publish it. We did want to send along our compliments, though. [Specific critique of piece.]

Thank you again for sending this our way.

Sincerely,