Nice encouragement from (confidential) literary magazine
We really enjoyed reading your work — thank you for trusting us with RINGO during our Fiction Magic Spring 2020 call for submissions. It’s never fun to hear that a publication won’t be publishing your work — we’ve been there — but ultimately we can only find space to publish about 2% of submitted fiction. Those are terrible odds but your work definitely has the skill and craft to be in that 2% — this is absolutely not an indictment of your talent and skill as an author, merely the subjective thoughts of a small group of editors who have their own quirks, likes, biases and tastes. So please don’t think of this like a rejection — because rejection hurts — simply think of this as One Step Closer to a Yes. And remember this: Witness has turned away work that has gone on to win MAJOR AWARDS by authors who are SUPER IMPORTANT, including work that went on to be adapted into movies and major TV shows. We’re probably going to kick ourselves for letting your story go, to be honest. We might already be kicking ourselves.
So let’s make a deal: Let’s both continue to do our best work and keep connected. We definitely don’t want to lose you as a Witness future contributor, so if you promise to keep sending great fiction, we’ll keep reading it and trying to find a place for it in a future issue, okay?
Thank you again for trusting us with your fiction. We are so grateful for this opportunity.
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