EZ Rejection Form Letter for Writers:
Literary Mag version

by Anna Richenda

     Tired of searching your return correspondence for inch-high rejection slips? Don't love those fuschia colored, left over flyers cut-up and photocopied on the back? Puzzled by why an editor who requests manuscript format submissions would send out quarter size slips of paper copied at a stant with low toner?

     Or maybe you are a lit mag editor, and you just need an easier way of processing the slush pile before it turns into a hydra and eats you.

     Worry no more! The EZ Rejection Form Letter can help. Writers, ease the troubles of overworked lit mag editors everywhere by including the link to the EZ Form Letter with your SASE in your next submission. And as a bonus, learn more about why you were rejected than you have probably ever learned before! :)


Dear [Writer's name, or default here]: :

    Your is just not right for our publication because

    What we mean to say is, it's really, really great but

    We apologize for the delay in getting back to you, but as you probably know, publishing is extremely competitive at this time and we are frankly

    The editorial staff here at [mag title, or default]: wish in the future.

Guy deGuise-Anderson
Second Assistant to the Assistant.


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Thanks to The Rejected Quarterly, where this letter first appeared in print.