Submission Statement: April 2022
Not gonna lie, April was a tough month. Read all the gory details below. 🙂
April 2022 Report Card
- Submissions Sent: 9
- Rejections: 10
- Acceptances: 0
- Publications: 0
- Further Consideration/Shortlist: 0
Any month where the number of rejections eclipses the number of submissions is probably gonna be a bad month. Add to that exactly zero acceptances or publications, and, well, I’ll just stand by my opening statement. If I search for a silver lining, I guess it’s that I sent 9 submissions, giving me 36 for the year and a pace of 108 for 2022. So there’s that. Still, it was a tough and disappointing month. I really thought a couple of those rejections had a good shot at being acceptances, but it was not to be.
Rejections
Ten rejections in April.
- Standard Form Rejections: 10
- Upper-Tier Form Rejections: 0
- Personal Rejections: 0
Yep, ten form rejection. If I squint, I might be able to call a couple of the rejections upper-tier, but that would be disingenuous because I’m not certain the publishers in question actually send upper-tier rejections (many publishers don’t). The ten rejections in April bump my current rejections streak to fifteen. Not my longest by a long shot, but, you know, fifteen is enough. I also had a couple of multi-rejection days in April that made the rejections sting a bit more.
Okay, I’ve complained about my pile of rejections enough. The truth is, as always, rejections are just a reality of writing and submitting. If you do both long enough, you’re all but guaranteed to run into these little (or large) streaks of no’s and not for us’s. That said, if you’re a long-time short story submitter as I am, you know these streaks come to an end, and an acceptance is right around the corner. You just have to be patient, keep writing, and keep submitting. So that’s what I’ll do. 🙂
That was April. How was your month?
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My rejections also eclipsed my submissions in April. Maybe it’s an April thing.
I liked your response only out of solidarity. May May be a better month for the both of us. 🙂