Dear [First name Last name]: Thank you for sending us "Title of piece". We rely on submissions like yours since a good portion of what we publish comes to us unsolicited. Unfortunately, we can't find a place for this piece in our next few issues. But please feel free to submit again in the future as our tastes and needs continuously change. Thanks again for your efforts and letting us see your work. Sincerely, Chelsea Hogue, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Soul Searching Rejection
Posted on 10:21 AM by humpty
I like this rejection. It's like at McSweeney's they tried really hard to find a place for your beautiful work, but they just couldn't quite find the perfect spot for it. And whilst this is probably not exactly representative of their process of rejecting, I think it is a classy no-blame way to accomplish the task:
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