Literary Rejections on Display Now Has Long COVID

This is who gets published instead of you. Courtesy of a nice mouse who sent me the link.  My favorite line is: Q: "I assumed you...

Sorry for the lapse in posts over the Thanksgiving holiday. I went back to my hometown to spend the first holiday with my mother and a coup...

Ah, breaking news from the  New York Times  on what's to come.  Three words, peeps: consolidation, consolidation, consolidation.

An anonymous LROD reader sent this rejection in for your consideration.  It's from Rattle , a journal of "Poetry for the 21st Centu...

OTP is On The Premises , a web-based magazine. Here's the mission: On The Premises aims to promote newer and/or relatively unknown writ...

So it turns out that several quotes from my work have been selected in a very fancy reference book of quotes, a cool surprise.  Also, there ...

An uncscupulous group of swindlers give  literary types a bad name across the globe. (In this scenario, hopeful writers are as vulnerable a...

Are we depressing ? I thought we were comforting and consoling, a little bit pissed sometimes, but continuing to strive and thrive.

Here's a good one, sent in by an LROD reader:  Hi-- Unfortunately we have decided not to include your poem in this issue of the Incongru...

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." --Oscar Wilde p.s. Agent 99 got back to me with advice to dive back in one...

Guess they wouldn't have guessed in 1907 how popular stories that are "actually repellent" and "deal with the horrible...

This was sent in by an (apparently unattractive) LROD mouse. Click on it to read. Not literary, but funny.

Google as the evil rejector of the little guy.  I like the line, "we often get scoops."

I missed this article  last month. Sad, all around. "They have closed the offices of the Review, founded in 1925 and housed in a campus...

Convenient tiered rejection right before your very eyes.