all the literary journals that rejected me in 2023

modesty, baby!!!!

I first did this in 2021 and then forgot to last year. Here’s this year’s list!

All the literary journals that rejected me in 2023:

• Headmistress Press

• Split Lip Magazine

• The Malahat Review

• Redivider

• Orca: A Literary Journal

• Variant Literature

• The Saltbush Review

• Chestnut Review

• Baltimore Review

• Boulevard

• Denver Quarterly¹

• Poetry Magazine

• Rattle

• The Georgia Review

• Grain Magazine

• Passages North

• About Place Journal

• Showcase

• Event Magazine

• The Paris Review

• Lunch Ticket

• Permafrost Magazine

• Foglifter

• TAB

• Room

• The Ex-Puritan

• The Suburban Review

• Ignatian Literary Magazine

• The Good Life Review

• Nashville Review

• Zoetic Press

• The Bombay Literary Magazine

• Massachusetts Review

• Foundlings Press

• Narrative Magazine

• Chaotic Merge Magazine

And all the presses who rejected my books in 2023:

• Persea Books

• Milkweed Editions

• Coffee House Press

• University of Pittsburgh Press

• Tupelo Press

• Fence

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Here’s to more rejections (and acceptances) in 2024!

An old post on stamina:

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And some submission opportunities:

• 50+ Recently Opened Submission Calls (15 That Pay)

• 40 Lit Mags Accepting Previously Published Poetry

• The Practicing Writer 2.0: January 2024

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-Despy Boutris
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1. But I still got in, one way or another! They made my art the cover. And it took ten Denver Quarterly Visual Art rejections to get that acceptance. PHEWF.