Mid-American Review

Prose rejections

Standard

2013

Dear —:

Thank you for the privilege of considering your writing for our journal. We've read it carefully, but we regret to report we have decided not to accept it for publication. We wish you luck in placing it with another outlet and wish you well in all your writing endeavors.

2012

We appreciate the opportunity to read your work; however, after careful consideration, we at Mid-American Review have decided your submission is not a match for us at this time. We do wish you the best of luck placing it elsewhere, however, and with all your writing endeavors.

Thank you for giving us a try.

Best wishes,

Michael Czyzniejewski, Editor-in-Chief

2011

Greetings! Thank you for the opportunity to read your work. We're sorry to say that after careful consideration, we have decided not to publish this submission. We do wish you the best of luck placing it elsewhere, and with all your writing endeavors.

Best,

Michael Czyzniejewski, Editor

A Rung Above

Thank you for sending your work to Mid-American Review. After careful deliberation, we have decided not to accept it for publication, though we wanted to let you know that we read it with more than the casual amount of interest, that your work in some way caught our eye.

We hope that you will send more work our way in the future. We also wish you luck in all of your literary endeavors, including placing this submission in another publication.

Slightly Higher Tier than That

Thank you for submitting your writing to Mid-American Review. After careful consideration, we're sorry to report that we have decided not to accept it for publication. Please know, however, that we read this submission with more than the casual amount of interest; your work in some way distinguished itself from many of our other submissions.

We wish you luck in placing this particular submission in another venue. We also hope that you will consider submitting more work to us in the future.

Best, Lydia Munnell Fiction Editor

Thank you for sending your work to Mid-American Review. Although we have decided not to accept it for publication, we wanted to let you know that we read it with more than the casual amount of interest, that there is much to admire in your writing.

We hope that you will send more work our way in the future. We also wish you luck in all of your literary endeavors, including placing this submission in another forum.

Thanks again for sending your work our way, ------, and please forgive my delay in responding to it.

Best, Karen Craigo Editor

Greetings. Thanks for submitting, as well as for your patience in awaiting our reply. We, as a staff, spent time reading and discussing your submission, which delayed our response somewhat, but also allowed us to give it the attention it deserves.

I'm sorry to say that after our discussion, we have decided not to accept your work for publication. However, there were quite a few favorable comments made, supporters of your work speaking up on its finer points.

We do wish you the best of luck placing this elsewhere and hope you do try us again when you have something.

Best,

Brad Felver

Fiction Editor

Thank you for submitting your writing to Mid-American Review. After careful consideration, we're sorry to report that we have decided not to accept it for publication. Please know, however, that we read this submission with more than the casual amount of interest; your work distinguished itself from many of our other submissions, and we appreciated the opportunity to read it.

We wish you luck in placing this particular submission in another venue. We also hope that you will consider submitting more work to us in the future.

Sincerely, Rebecca Orchard Assistant Fiction Editor

Higher Tier, personal note

Thanks for your submission to MAR, and for your patience in awaiting a response.

This is a story I kept around so that my staff could discuss upon their return to campus this fall. While a lot of nice things were said, and the story had some support, I'm sorry to say that we are not accepting it for publication.

We do wish you luck in placing it elsewhere, and hope you try us again in the future.

Best,

Michael Czyzniejewski, Editor

Poetry Rejections

Standard

2010

Greetings! Thank you for the opportunity to read your work. We're sorry to say that after careful consideration, we have decided not to publish your submission. We do wish you the best of luck placing it elsewhere, however, and with all your writing endeavors.

The deadline for our James Wright Poetry Competition and Sherwood Anderson Competition has been extended to November 1, 2010. For information on these contests, and the upcoming Winter Wheat: The Mid-American Review Festival of Writing, visit our website: http://www.bgsu.edu/midamericanreview

Higher Tier, personal note

Thank you for sending your work to Mid-American Review. Although we have decided not to accept it for publication, we wanted to let you know that we read it with more than the casual amount of interest, that there is much to admire in your writing.

We hope that you will send more work our way in the future. We also wish you luck in all of your literary endeavors, including placing this submission in another forum.

We really enjoyed reading and talking about your work, but I'm sincerely sorry to have kept you waiting so long for this response.

If you try us again, we'll do better.

Best, Karen Craigo Editor

For information on our literary contests, about our yearly writing festival Winter Wheat, how to acquire an issue of MAR, or for general queries, please visit our website:

http://www.bgsu.edu/midamericanreview