Westerly

Fiction rejections

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Dear —,

Many thanks for your submission to Westerly.

Unfortunately, on this occasion your submission ’—' has not been selected for publication in our coming issue. It was, however, shortlisted for inclusion, and it was very seriously considered.

Please do not take this as a reflection on your writing. The selection process for this issue was incredibly competitive, as we received nearly 600 submissions. A lot of deserving authors missed out on publication. I am sorry I don’t have better news for you, and I appreciate you sending us work of such high quality.

Our second issue for this year will be a special focus issue, engaging with Asia and the Indian Ocean region. A call for papers will be released soon. We encourage you to look out for it, and to submit again for our 2018 issues. We would be very happy to see work from you continue to come in submission to any of these issues of the Magazine.

Kind regards, Catherine