Another form letter rejection for my piece Black Vultures. Dear Trace Ramsey, Thank you for sending us your brief essay “Black Vultures”. Although we do not have a place for your work in the issues for which we are currently reading, we wanted you to know that our readers read your essay closely. We have […]

On Sunday I received a form rejection from the literary journal Passages North published annually by Northern Michigan University. Dear Trace Ramsey, Thank you for sending us “Black Vultures.” We appreciate your interest in Passages North. The editors have carefully read your submission, but we regret that it does not meet our current needs. Thanks […]

Thank you for submitting your work to the 2017 Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Competition. While we are sorry to tell you that your entry did not win, we appreciate your sharing your work with us. We wish you and your writing the best of luck, and hope that you will enter next year’s Rose Post […]

I received a generic rejection from The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts. It was the first rejection of a new short piece that I have just started submitting. The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts has one of the fastest turnaround times on submissions, with an average response of just three days. My rejection took nine […]