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Dec 16
2 Rejections from It Was Paradise - Poetry
(185 days each)
Dec 15
1 Rejection from A Midnight Kind of Place
(4 days)
1 Rejection from Adventitious
(14 days)
Acceptance from Bare Back Magazine - Poetry (111 days)
(Congratulations Lancelot Schaubert, Author of Bell Hammers!)
(Congratulations Lancelot Schaubert, Author of Bell Hammers!)
3 Rejections from Bare Back Magazine - Poetry
(111 days each)
Acceptance from Clarkesworld Magazine - Fiction (35 days)
(Congratulations Samantha Murray!)
(Congratulations Samantha Murray!)
1 Rejection from CRUX - Fiction
(17 days)
1 Rejection from Fictive Dream
(20 days)
Acceptance from Fusion Fragment (34 days)
2 Rejections from Haven Spec Magazine - Fiction
(ranging from 31 to 44 days)
1 Rejection from Home Constellations: An Anthology of Unconventional Bonds - Fiction
(78 days)
1 Rejection from McSweeney's Internet Tendency
(5 days)
1 Rejection from Not One of Us - Fiction
(13 days)
1 Rejection from Okay Donkey - Fiction
(12 days)
1 Rejection from One Story
(42 days)
2 Rejections from Plott Hound Magazine - Fiction
(ranging from 1 to 4 days)
1 Rejection from Reed Magazine - Nonfiction
(146 days)
1 Rejection from The Drift - Fiction
(99 days)
2 Rejections from Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Contest
(ranging from 68 to 87 days)
Dec 14
2 Rejections from A Midnight Kind of Place
(ranging from 8 to 10 days)
1 Rejection from Augur - Fiction
(106 days)
4 Rejections from Beneath Ceaseless Skies
(ranging from 1 to 12 days)
Acceptance from Black Petals - Fiction (30 days)
(Congratulations landfaller!)
(Congratulations landfaller!)
1 Rejection from Bourbon Penn
(13 days)
4 Rejections from Clarkesworld Magazine - Fiction
(1 day each)
1 Rejection from Copper Nickel - Fiction
(5 days)
1 Rejection from Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores - Fiction
(13 days)
2 Rejections from DreamForge Anvil - Fiction
(13 days each)
1 Rejection from Epiphany: A Literary Journal (Online) - Fiction
(36 days)
1 Rejection from Escape Pod
(19 days)
3 Rejections from Fahmidan Journal - Fiction
(ranging from 4 to 25 days)
1 Rejection from Fourteen Hills - Fiction
(225 days)
1 Rejection from Haven Spec Magazine - Fiction
(43 days)
1 Rejection from I Haven't Made It Home Yet - Fiction
(31 days)
1 Rejection from Ink in Thirds - Fiction
(1 day)
6 Rejections from Ink in Thirds - Poetry
(1 day each)
2 Rejections from Interzone
(1 day each)
Acceptance from My Galvanized Friend - Fiction (47 days)
(Congratulations Sage Collins!)
(Congratulations Sage Collins!)
1 Rejection from Neon & Smoke - Fiction
(0 days)
1 Rejection from New England Review - Fiction
(96 days)
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