Michigan Quarterly Review

"MQR is an eclectic interdisciplinary journal of arts and culture that seeks to combine the best of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction with outstanding critical essays on literary, cultural, social, and political matters. The flagship journal of the University of Michigan, MQR draws on lively minds here and elsewhere, seeking to present accessible work of all varieties for sophisticated readers from within and without the academy."

Prose rejections

Standard

Dear Contributor,

We regret to say that your recent submission doesn't meet our needs at the moment. Thank you, though, for thinking of us, and for pursuing the difficult art of putting words to paper. We hope you continue to consider us in the future.

With best wishes,

Jonathan Freedman

V.V. Ganeshananthan

Keith Taylor

Higher Tier

Text of Higher Tier Rejection

I found this very moving and effective, but its not the sort of thing we do. Keep writing!

Poetry rejections

Standard

Dear Contributor,

We regret to say that your recent submission doesn't meet our needs at the moment. Thank you, though, for thinking of us, and for pursuing the difficult art of putting words to paper. We hope you continue to consider us in the future.

With best wishes,

Jonathan Freedman

Keith Taylor

Higher Tier

Same as Standard tier with handwritten note.