Literary Rejections on Display Now Has Long COVID

So, I've been asked to write a review of two novels for a nice, fancy magazine.  I've decided to read one of them the old fashioned ...

An LROD reader wants us to do an analysis of the following two rejections from Missouri Review, both currently being sent out as form lette...

A cartoonist is receiving your rejections.  Be glad you can't draw.

Hope the week gets better than this.

Enough said.  Best wishes indeed.

Here's from a group called the Cooperative Press, meant to subvert the current state of publishing by teaching writers about the publish...

Look way at the bottom of this rejection from The Su n where Colleen Donfield's name is listed. Wouldn't you love the title "M...

Writer and editor Brian Doyle published this lovely piece on rejection  a few years back over at the Kenyon Review blog.  It's nothing w...

Your prayers have been answered. (Or have they?)  A gentle reader sent in a link to a site the ultimate anti-rejection site .  Here's th...

So, this rejection came in yesterday. The agent had read the first section in August and sent me an enthusiastic note about how much she lov...

In case you find yourself keeping track of your own personal rejection, perhaps it is comforting to know that some (bl)agents also keep a ta...

It doesn't suit at least two of their editors' needs? No poetic grasslands for grazing? Oh well, what do rhinos know anyway?  They h...

Can't drum up any interest in your unpublished novels?  Easy-peasy....  if you don't mind the part about murdering some colleagues ....

These ladies have found a brilliant way to get people to follow their blog: A contest to get critiqued by a literary agent.  I don't kn...

Blogging you from the airport today (Hope they don't confiscate my laptop).  I received this anonymous email from a clever LROD Mouser ...