The Literary Review

An international journal of contemporary writing. Published quarterly since 1957 by Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Poetry rejections

Standard

Thank you for sending us your poetry submission. We appreciated the chance to read your work, but unfortunately, these pieces are not for us.

Best of luck with them and thank you again for thinking of us.

Sincerely, The Editors The Literary Review

Higher Tier

Text of Higher Tier Rejection

Prose rejections

Standard

Text of Standard Rejection

Higher Tier

2011

Dear ____,

Thank you for sending us "____". We enjoyed reading your work, but didn't feel it was right for The Literary Review.

We hope that you will continue to send us your work. We'd be delighted to read more.

Sincerely,

The Editors The Literary Review