Rejection 374
Jac Jemc
I received a kind rejection for my too-long story from The Oxford American.
One week til The Grip of It comes out and it had a little cameo in this month's Marie Claire! #grateful
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I received a kind rejection for my too-long story from The Oxford American.
One week til The Grip of It comes out and it had a little cameo in this month's Marie Claire! #grateful
Very kind and encouraging note from the Nashville Review and a form rejection from Hayden's Ferry.
I just got back from a research weekend in Munich and the surrounding area and I'm ready to sit at a desk again while my body heals from traipsing around with a heavy backpack.
Nice rejection for a longer story from Kwame Dawes at Prairie Schooner!
Also, I am in a modern building next to this little palace, aka the Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus in Schwandorf until the middle of July and pretty much radioactive with productivity (though always sure I could be doing more).
Salamander didn't want the story I sent them. It was 12,000 words. Yesterday I finally finished cutting it down to a much more reasonable (though still long) 6,900 words. Let's see how this goes.
I received a very kind rejection for the reprint of a piece in an anthology to which I'd been invited to submit. They'd decided to take the anthology in a different direction which my piece didn't quite fit into. That seems like a particularly soft way to turn me down, and I appreciated it.
I also have a new story called "Truth and Rules" up in the magazine Lost Balloon today. Thanks to Chelsea Voulgares for having me!
BOAAT declined the story I sent them.
The Laurel Review let me know they don't want the long story I sent them, which is too bad, BUT I was accepted to a 6-week residency at the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany, so I have zero complaints. I'll be there with two visual artists and a composer, and I'll be within a few hours of the castles I want to research for the new novel. Great luck all around!
Thanks to Fifth Wednesday for reading and considering my big long story, even if it wasn't a fit.
And even bigger thanks to StoryQuarterly for including my story that's an ode to Shirley Jackson's style, "Half Dollar," alongside work by so many people I admire, including, but not limited to Wendy Ortiz, Claire Vaye Watkins, Alix Ohlin and Stephen Dixon. Such an honor. All gratitude to Paul Lisicky. Order your copy here!
Alaska Quarterly Review turned down the paper submission of a story I sent them.
Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance), Borne and City of Saints & Madmen had really kind words to say about The Grip of It though!
"The Grip of It is a stunning, smart, genuinely creepy page-turner that I couldn't put down. It's got depth, thrills, twists, and great writing. I'd recommend this novel to anyone. One of the few haunted house stories that sticks the landing."
I received a rejection from New Ohio Review.
I received a really personal, encouraging note from the Missouri Review. It was for the really long story, so this was especially affirming.