Dear Trace Ramsey, We appreciated the chance to read your work. Unfortunately, this piece is not a fit for us. Thank you so much for your interest in BCR. Sincerely, Bat City Review

Dear Trace Ramsey, Thank you very much for submitting to MUZZLE. We are incredibly grateful for all the support we have garnered thus far. Unfortunately, we will not be using this submission. Please keep in mind that we are only able to accept a small percentage of poetry submissions. Best of luck placing your work […]

A tough nut to crack. Dear Trace, Thank you so much for your application to the Sustainable Arts Foundation. This program continues to be intensely competitive; in our 8th year, nearly 2,500 writers and artists submitted their portfolios. We are so impressed and inspired by the creativity of our applicants, and humbled by the stories […]

Dear Trace Ramsey, Thank you for sending us “Ambloplites rupestris, Nest, Wheels Up, Equus africanus asinus, When We Worked”. After careful consideration, we have concluded that we are unable to publish your work at this time. Our current acceptance rate is 5% of all submissions and, as such, we turn down a large percentage of […]

Dear Trace, Thank you for sending poems our way. We have decided to pass, but we wish you luck finding homes for them. Sincerely, The Editors Foundry

A rejection with a request to send more work: Dear Trace, Thank you for sending these poems. Although we’ve ultimately decided to decline, we enjoyed reading your work. We hope you will submit again. Because we are inviting you to send more work, you do not have to abide by any waiting period. We look […]

Started submitting a new poem yesterday, From Here to There. This rejection came one day after submitting it. This is a hard journal to get into, but still such a quick turnaround seems like a bad omen. Thank you for your submission. We are grateful that you reached out to us and honored at the […]

Dear Trace Ramsey, We want to thank you for giving us the chance to consider “Ambloplites rupestris, Nest, Wheels Up, Equus africanus asinus, When We Worked.” Unfortunately, we aren’t able to accept this submission at this time. If you haven’t already done so, we hope you’ll take a look at some of our issues to […]

Dear Trace, Thank you for submitting to Diode. We very much appreciate the opportunity to read your work. We read your poems with interest however, we decided that they do not meet our current needs. We wish you and your poems the best and thank you again for thinking enough of Diode to send us […]