tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978975285518561941.post6613329973167278350..comments2023-08-10T05:01:45.872-07:00Comments on Blog of Myself: The Rejection of Rejection Slipsa.k.a. "Joe"http://www.blogger.com/profile/09297686120651846304noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978975285518561941.post-37118132910339952312009-09-17T09:17:26.719-07:002009-09-17T09:17:26.719-07:00The best rejection letters offer encouraging or co...The best rejection letters offer encouraging or constructive feedback. Short of that, I prefer a short, polite note like the one the New Yorker sends (which is a little 4 X 6 note, on nice paper, and very frameable). <br /><br />Then there are the publications that don't bother replying. In 2008, I sent some submissions to The Village Voice and a number of their affiliated weeklies. Not a single one replied.<br /><br />The worst letter I ever received was a full-page form rejection letter from a youngish editor that read like a pep talk, about how important it was to be happy with your own work no matter what the editors say, etc. I would have preferred a short, sweet rejection.Kurtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978975285518561941.post-88387848136987890272009-03-27T05:36:00.000-07:002009-03-27T05:36:00.000-07:00Am I the only person who thinks it's rude not to g...Am I the only person who thinks it's rude not to give some signal that the (unstatededly) rejected poem is free to go to some (presumably lesser) venue that will publish such drivel? Public statements (after 100 days consider yourself condemned; do not invite yourself to our party) are fine. But Nothing is just plain rude.Judy Roitmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05516857305795744182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978975285518561941.post-22386530877606608362009-03-26T12:58:00.000-07:002009-03-26T12:58:00.000-07:00One of the best rejections ever was in the old pr...One of the best rejections ever was in the old print edition of Exquisite Corpse Magazine, Co-edited by Andrie Codrescu and Laura Rothenthal and it's famous Body Bag Column that co-editor Rothenthal published. Rejects were listed by name under various headings, if memory serves, from Not Quite This Time to Never Ever Send Anything to Us Again...or some such. It was funny and entertaining to read her comments and sometimes see under what heading you and your submission fell that issue. The really awful stuff was subject to her 'close reading'...before being booted from here to there. Ouch!!!!!<BR/> <BR/>Her comments were always really smart, funny and biting...meeting the requirments for us cynics in the readership. <BR/><BR/>I was lucky to get published a few times and only ended up in the Try Again bag once or twice.Jim McCraryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15653393821253902827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978975285518561941.post-71228045008655922272009-03-25T21:04:00.000-07:002009-03-25T21:04:00.000-07:00I have avoided not receiving a rejection slip by l...I have avoided not receiving a rejection slip by looking at the table of contents for that issue of Narrativity. To me, that table of contents is a rejection slip all on it's own. Christian Bök's name in a table of contents is a rejection slip to lil' ol' me. (I never understood the placement of the apostrophe in "lil'"--shouldn't it be "li'l'"?) When I think "Fence Magazine submission" those words are almost instantly replaced in my mind with the words "rejection slip central."Robert J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16333917853085782315noreply@blogger.com