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What to Do After a Rejection

What to Do After a Rejection

When your Submittable is a dispiriting graveyard of declined submissions

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Hello wallow my old friend (to the theme of “Sound of Silence” by Simon & Garfunkel).

Your submission was declined. Congratulations! You’ve stepped beyond the safety and comfort of keeping all of your writing in a locked document on your desktop. You are hoping to share it more widely through magazines and journals, and you are showing up to the process…

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