Bat City Review

"In 2004, at the urging of a group of ambitious graduate students, the UT Austin English Department created Bat City Review as a corollary to the M.A. program in Creative Writing. A first-class Master’s program, the Department reasoned, deserved to have a first-class literary journal. Published in spring 2005, the inaugural issue featured a diverse range of short fiction and poetry. Since then, Bat City Review has aroused attention and excitement on the small-press literary magazine scene and has earned a reputation as one of the most consistently rich literary magazines published today."

Prose Rejections

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Dear —,

We appreciated the chance to read your work. Unfortunately, this story is not a fit for us at this time. Thanks so much for your interest in BCR.

Sincerely, The editorial team at Bat City Review

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Dear ---:

Thank you for submitting to Bat City Review. After careful consideration, we've found that your submission is not a fit for us at this time. We hope you keep us in mind in the future, and we wish you the best of luck with your writing.

Sincerely, Austin Rodenbiker Poetry Editor Bat City Review

Higher Tiered

Dear Writer:

Thank you for thinking of Bat City Review for your work. We aren't the right magazine for this piece, but we read it with care and interest, and we wish you the best of luck in placing it elsewhere.

To learn more about Bat City Review, please visit your local bookstore to find our latest issue or visit us online at batcityreview.com.

Kind Regards,

The Editors of Bat City Review

(Oct 2011) Dear [name]:

Thank you for sending us "xxx" We really enjoyed this piece, but we didn't feel it was right for Bat City Review.

We hope that you will continue to send us your work.

Sincerely,

The Editors of Bat City Review

Poetry Rejections

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Dear [Writer's Name]:

Thank you for sending us [Title of Work.] We really enjoyed this piece, but we didn't feel it was right for Bat City Review.

We hope that you will continue to send us your work.

Sincerely,

The Editors of Bat City Review

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Dear Writer:

Thank you for thinking of Bat City Review for your work. We aren't the right magazine for this piece, but we read it with care and interest, and we wish you the best of luck in placing it elsewhere.

To learn more about Bat City Review, please visit your local bookstore to find our latest issue or visit us online at batcityreview.com.

Higher Tiered

Dear Writer:

Thank you for submitting to Bat City Review. Our readers selected your writing out of the general pool of submissions, but after careful consideration and discussion, we've found that your submission is not a fit for us at this time. Please do keep us in mind in the future -- there was something in your work that caught our eye! We wish you the best of luck with your writing.

Sincerely,

The Editors of Bat City Review