Rejection Letters
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BOOK MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN!!
Make sure you read the guidelines on what we're looking for, expectations on responses, etc.)
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yes, our name is Rejection Letters. but we're an actual lit journal that publishes actual literature however we best see fit. just because you submit, doesn't mean we won't reject you. come on, people.
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WE ARE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS!!
This may be an incredibly bad idea, but what the hell? We're a new online lit journal with something we think everyone can relate to! So, like, wanna submit??
#WritingCommunity
#Submissions
#WriterLift
#writing
#literature
#flashfiction
#poetry
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guess what, motherfuckers!
we're opening subs back up next week.
get your shit ready.
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bout to publish the fuck outta some wan little husks, y'all
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“thank you for giving an opportunity to read your work. while there was much to admire…”
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I was gonna wait until Monday but maaaaaaan FUCK IT! This new logo designed by the one and only
@angeelio
is just TOO FUCKING GOOD!!
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soooo…after 3 years, we’ve decided we’re gonna take a break and close general subs for the summer (May-July). apart from maybe some pop up subs here and there, we’re just gonna hang out at the beach and talk shit about everyone.
SEE Y’ALL IN AUGUST!!
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oh. there's discourse about rejection letters?
did your wittle huwt feewings get huwt when da big bad witewawy jownal said no fank you!?
gonna start sending out more rejections with our motto: it's not us, it's you.
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We’d like to remind everyone that we are the most powerful literary magazine in the universe, because of our significant lack of fucks to give.
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hey. send me your weird shit.
I mean, WEIRD. weird ass rejection letters, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, one-sentence things. whatever.
send me the shit you're too scared to send anywhere else.
I want it.
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hey nerds, remember when we did pop-up submissions?
yeah, I'm doing one now. here's the catch:
ONE SENTENCE ONLY.
I don't care what it is, just make it fucking good!
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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT:
@grahamjirvin
's I HAVE A GUN is officially part of the RL catalog, set for publication on 3/5/24!
PREORDERS ARE OPEN:
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Rejection Letters: THE place to send your “weird little pieces.”
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REJECTION LETTERS PRESS IS OPEN MOTHERFUCKERS!!!
First official release from
@dt_robbins
coming mid-July! PRE-ORDER TODAY through the Shop link on the site!
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“Momma, where are we going?”
when I tell you today's flash from
@TravisCravey
hit me in places WAY too real, it ain't no joke. fucking perfection.
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Um, holy shit y'all. Next week is our 1-year anniversary. Should we, like, get some four lokos and fuck around or what?
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We thought we might do something cool for 7K followers. Like show you 7 of our own worst, personal rejections or 7 of our ugliest scars or 7 of our most embarrassing moments or 7 of our worst hangovers. Taking suggestions (and followers.)
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“I never had another Enchirito, never finished that last olive, the taste now forever metallic, like blood, on my childhood palate.”
-From
@TravisCravey
’s Taco Bell piece “With Three Black Olives,” one of our many fabulous
@TBQuarterly
rejects 🌮
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We’re almost at 3K followers which means it’s time for an existential crisis! Who’s down?!
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Here's a promise:
Once we hit 2,000 followers, we won't do/change a damn thing.
It's just too much work.
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soooo....I'm not gonna say exactly WHEN it'll happen, but
@kylerseibel
is DEFINITELY gonna do a lil pop-up submission window SOMETIME next week.
y'all might wanna start getting your shit together now.
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Y'ALL REALLY HAVE NO IDEA HOW WEIRD THINGS ARE ABOUT TO GET OVER HERE LOLOL HAHAHAHAH UJHHHHADSF ASDFLAJDSHFA SDFHASDFASDFA
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Thinking I (
@dt_robbins
) might get drunk and do a pop-up submission thing tonight. Here's the guidelines:
DO NOT SUCK.
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idk maybe MAYBE there’ll be a pop-submission window tomorrow or something??
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Well, holy shit.
Looks like we've got our new reviews/interviews editor.
@dniellechelosky
starts next week.
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Because of the wonderful people at
@MythicPicnic
we’ll now be able to pay the next five writers we accept!
Damn, y’all. I can’t tell you how excited I am to be able to pay some great fucking writers for some great fucking work!
SEND US YOUR SHIT!
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Oh, hey! Good morning, y’all!
It’s a brand new day which means brand new rejections which means brand new chances to GET THE FUCK UP AND TRY AGAIN because we love y’all and think y’all are the shit!!!
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“Dear alcohol,
I almost died for you.”
Congratulations on one year of sobriety,
@birdpoems
!!!!!! “A PUBLIC BREAKUP LETTER TO THE LOVE OF MY LIFE,” one of our most personal, gut-wrenching letters to date, marks the occasion.
cw: alcoholism, suicide
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Forget about your dream journal. Which journals are your parents?
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Call us crazy, but we really wish more people would brag about getting rejections from us. Sure yeah acceptances are nice and we give those out too but... y'all.
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Exciting news today. We’ve made the obviously easy decision to make
@notporkroll
our MANAGING EDITOR because she’s fucking rad and has done a kick ass job over the past few months so, like, duh?
Y’all congratulate her because she deserves it!!
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Guess I'm just gonna sit here for the next hour or so and open up subs,
@Aaron__Burch
-style, w/ instant accepted/rejection letters.
Send me your shit. NOW.
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So other lit mags are out here sending rejections? What the hell we thought that was our thing?!
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hey you,
go eat pizza and have sex with someone tonight.
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“You are now cursed. You must start a lit mag and reject 12 other people by midnight or you will be killed.” -
@GoingByRenee
Pass it on.
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it's official! the inaugural publication for the press side of RL, Lexi Kent-Monning's (
@lexicola
) debut novel, THE BURDEN OF JOY, is set for release on 11/1/23!
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hey, everyone. it’s DT. can y’all give it up for
@mm_kaufman
and how fucking rad she is? if it weren’t for her, we’d probably be dead in a gutter with needles in our asses. JFC show some respect. you rule us all, MM!
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can’t make it to AWP because we’re too busy boning your girlfriend
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A new pop up category: Days of My Youth. Send us your prose, fiction and non-fiction, under 1000 words. It'll be a quick turnaround response. Promise.
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now that we've hit 7k followers, we've made a deal with satan and all of your souls are ours fuckers! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
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We see y'all have
#RejectionLetters
fever lately, so next week we're publishing nothing but fictional rejection letters! Get ready for a Master Class.
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This is the chaotic good (evil?) energy we are bringing into the lit mag world.
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thanks, HAD! felt almost as good as when your mom let us hit it from behind.
Congrats
@rejectionlit
for hitting 10k followers!
We don't quite remember anymore what it felt like hitting that number but pretty sure it was exciting!
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Well, I'm a few beers deep and we just got a new submission platform, sooooo... I guess that means I'm doing a pop-up submission call.
SEND ME YOUR SHIT!!
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oh, hey, y'all. guess what?
we're switching to an easier-to-use submission portal soon and you have no choice in the matter because I've already accepted the job and your bags are packed and we're moving to Delaware, so you're breaking up with your dumbass boyfriend mmkay?
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"Whenever I stare down a flight of stairs, I feel closest to death."
@rosshowalter
's 100-word micro is so good and so visceral and so omg that I just...omg. I think I accepted it within 30 seconds?
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Hey!
I just wanted all y'all to know that I love and appreciate each and every one of you. Thank you for all the support y'all have shown us and the weird shit we do.
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We've hit pause on publishing anything else on the site for the rest of the week. We'll be posting and reposting resources, black voices, etc. instead.
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Never seen a hornier tweet in my life.
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Super fucking stoked to introduce
@felishonaleash
as our new CNF editor! Y’all give her big love!
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"You never once took me on any business trips,/
but you took her to Vegas when you started dating."
- from "Vegas, Baby", one of two poems by
@rydanmardsey
we have up today:
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cw: violence
"I want my name on a plaque at the tank museum. I want my blown apart face on the wall. I want to feel military fabric against my skin. I want to be sorry for everything I’ve ever done."
- from
@grahamjirvin
's "The Tank Museum":
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I don't wanna ruin this one-sentence micro from
@LRScully
.
But y'all need to stop what you're doing and read it NOW.
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In case y’all didn’t hear, we have a NEW submission platform and that shit is TIGHT AS HELL!!
SEND US YOUR SHIT!!!!
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Starting a new sister lit journal with only 100-word bios. Gonna call it Bios After Dark (BAD).
How you doing, HUD?
@havehadhavehad
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Thinking of giving the writers we've published their own nickname like the rejectorious maybe?
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Hey gamers, it's yr lucky weekend because I (Lindsay) am doing a pop-up sub window tomorrow, 4/17!
Here's what I'm looking for.
Get em in by 7ish pm tomorrow, 4/17 for a snap decision:
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Be proud of the shit you write.
Send it out. Get rejected.
Send it to
@havehadhavehad
.
Then send it to us.
SEND US YOUR SHIT!!
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well, hell has officially frozen over because
@Aaron__Burch
is doing a pop-up sub on Oct. 21 unlike anything we've done before:
contemporary dirty realism, 3k words or so, "traditional" stories or whatever that means!
GET YOUR SHIT READY!
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Oh, hey. Wanna help us out?
Looking for an editorial assistant to help out mostly with some web stuff.
Who wants in? Email me at dt
@rejection
-letters.com!
Love you. Mean it. Bye.
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Trying something new. If I like it, we'll keep at it:
Tell me your favorite alcoholic drink followed by a 500-word max piece that best pairs with it with. Put the drink at the top of your piece.
I'm calling it, "Drinking Buddies".
Okay. Go.
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"I told my class during Show and Tell, despite having no twin to show, and Tommy Jenkins said at lunch, “You ate your sister.” I became that insult. I was known as The Girl Who Ate Her Sister."
I love everything about this story from
@JoVarnish1
today!
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the sloppy seconds of indie lit
legit believe you could start a journal rn, take and publish at LEAST half of these pieces from our queue that I'm gonna end up painfully passing on, and immediately become one of the best lit journals on the web
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"It was hot, a humid stifling sweltering summer day. Hot enough to drive a man crazy, or in my dad’s case, pack up all his shit and drive off."
damn you,
@DamonMcKinney76
, for making me FEEL!!
if you don't cry, you have no soul.
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I have SO MANY submissions to go through and I'm stoked!
The next five writers we accept are getting PAID!!
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I'm planning on getting straight blitzed tomorrow night, which means I'm opening up subs for y'all to send me shit.
here's what I want:
fiction/cnf no more than 500 words
poetry with lots of pop culture references
start submitting your shit, nerds.
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In about an hour I’m gonna start going through subs. SEND ME YIUR SHIT!
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it's been a long time since I've done pop-up submissions
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a lot of y’all are fucking annoying and your lit journals suck old balls. happy easter!
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GIVE US YOUR ANGSTIEST ANGST DEEP-FRIED IN ANGST.
i just saw a lit mag's self-description include something like "don't burden us with your existential angst" and like should i even still submit to them??? i am pure existential angst
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Our social media gal is already a basket case, can we not have glitches like this that give her a heart attack, Twitter?
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PROOFS ARE IN! Sending a few of y’all some shit soon! Awwwww shiiiiit!!!
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"I slept with someone last night because he looked like Tom Selleck."
Same.
Read "TOM SELLECK" by
@wannderfullll
, up today:
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Wooo hooooo who’s ready to stare into the void all weekend?!
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Y'all wanna help us w/ something?
So, since we're stuck inside, I'm low on pictures to use when we publish something new. Email me 1-2 pictures (MUST BE TAKEN ON YOUR PHONE), and if I like it, I'll give you credit when it's published.
Send nudes to
@TravisCravey
. Not us.
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HUGE fucking congrats to
@emilylauracosta
for making
@Wigleaf
's top 50 of 2021 with this sick-ass story from back in December!
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"At least two of my eharmony dates were afraid to sit on it, and though I swore I had not stabbed anyone and had no plans to stab them, they took off without mention of a second date."
@KaraVernor
thinks your fucking couch is the worst btw
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