Smartish Pace

Poetry Rejections

Standard

2011

Thank you for your interest in Smartish Pace and for allowing us to read your poems. Unfortunately your poems were not selected for publication. We hope that you will consider sending poems to Smartish Pace again in the future (please note our policy of 1 submission per year; though you may also enter our contests) and support our independent publication by ordering our new issue or a subscription.

And please friend us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter so we can update you on readings, poetry news, contests, submission deadlines and other poetry info.

2020

[Obviously a form from before the pandemic, but sent while it's still raging.] Dear First Last,

Thank you for your interest in Smartish Pace and for allowing us to read your poems. We enjoyed your submission but unfortunately, your poems were not selected for publication. We hope that you will consider sending poems to Smartish Pace again in the future! Please enter one of our contests and support our independent publication by ordering our new issue or a subscription, and follow us on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram. If you go to AWP please stop by our table and say hello!

Finally, if you're in Baltimore, come to our monthly reading series 'HOT L Poets Series' held on the 2nd Sunday of each month. See our Facebook page for the next reading and video of past readings.

Best, Smartish Pace

Higher tier

2010

Thank you for your interest in Smartish Pace and for allowing us to read your poems. We enjoyed your submission and are sorry for taking as long as we did to reach a decision. Your poems made it through our entire reading process and were read by all of our editors. Unfortunately your poems were not selected for publication. We hope that you will consider sending poems to Smartish Pace again in the future (please note our policy of 1 submission per year; though you may also enter our contests) and support our independent publication by ordering our new issue or a subscription.

This is our first year of reading e-mail submissions and we are hopeful that our response time will be much quicker in the future.

Thanks again for sending us your poems.

2015

Thank you for your interest in Smartish Pace and for allowing us to read your poems. We enjoyed your submission and are sorry we took forever to reach a decision. Your poems are great and made it through our entire reading process. Unfortunately your poems were not selected for publication. We hope that you will consider sending poems to Smartish Pace again in the future. Please note our policy of 1 submission per year, though you may also enter our contests.

And please support our independent publication by ordering our new issue or a subscription or following us on Facebook.

Thanks again for sending us your poems.