Saturday, July 07, 2007

 

Bizarro submission world


So I got a rejection from Quarter After Eight today (actually, a note saying they're not reading right now). The getting a rejection part isn't odd at all. What is odd is that I never sent work to them, and in fact they appear to be a prose-only journal. I looked at the cover letter they sent back, and it was the submission I sent to /nor (New Ohio Review) a few weeks ago. Apparently all the journals at Ohio University share the same English Department address, so when you send a set of poems with "Poetry Editors" and "/nor" written on the envelope and typed on the cover letter, for a journal that reads year round and only takes snail-mail submissions, you may just win the lottery and get back a note from a prose journal that says they only read online submissions, and not during the summer.

Much more happily, I got a nice note on my rejection from Pleiades. They does good stuffs over there.

Comments:
When I got my silly rejection from "Hotel Amerika," it said that HA was moving to another university, and that HA would be replaced by NOR at OU. Perhaps the same people who sent me the silly rejection misplaced yours.

Blacklist? Blacklist.
 
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