Fanfare! Rejection from The New Yorker!

[Marc Joan]

I actually got a rejection letter from The New Yorker today! They didn't bother responding to my two previous efforts, so that's progress of a kind, isn't it? ...isn't it? Help me out here guys, I'm clutching at straws after six months of short story drought...

 

[Robin]

Many congratulations, Marc. Progress...of sorts, right?

 

[Marc Joan]

Thank you...

 

[Paul Whybrow]

Such a rejection means you can truly declare 'I've been thrown out of better joints than this,' when someone shows you the door.

 

[Lex Black]

Con...gratulations...?

 

[Robinne Weiss]

Congratulations! I, too, wear my New Yorker rejection like a badge of honor. Mine was over 20 years ago now, though...

 

[Bluma Bezbroda]

A pessimist will say the glass is half empty, an optimist will say it's half full, a Polish person will just keep refilling it So I refil your glass up to the brink and say: Cheers man! You have something to send and get rejected!

 

[Chase Gamwell]

I'm gonna say congratulations since I'm not even close to being rejected by the New Yorker. Just another step forward, sir!

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Ten years outside the walls of Troy, but Troy fell.

 

[Patricia D]

I actually got a rejection letter from The New Yorker today! They didn't bother responding to my two previous efforts, so that's progress of a kind, isn't it? ...isn't it? Help me out here guys, I'm clutching at straws after six months of short story drought...

I'd frame that letter and put it on the wall near where I write. The New Yorker knows who you are. Next time they might buy the story.

 

[Alistair Roberts]

I was going to say frame it as well, but I got beaten to it!

 

[Katie-Ellen]

We Litopians are highly selective about whom we shall permit to kick us out. Only the best will do, the poor misguided souls.

 

[Richard Sutton]

You certainly picked an august door to knock on! Did they give you anything besides, "Not a good match... blah, blah, blah"?

 

[Marc Joan]

Alas no; just the standard -:

Dear Marc,

We regret that we are unable to use the enclosed material. Thank you for
giving us the opportunity to consider it.

Sincerely,
The Editors

Funny thing is, it took me ages to work out who 'TNY' was - I had to go back through my submission records to match it up.

 

[Meerkat]

Heh. I had a subscription to the New Yorker from age 15-19. That magazine never failed to amaze me with its incongruity. I'd say be proud they rejected you -- as I recall, the stories they published back then were meaningless garbage dressed up in Sunday best. You're far too good of a writer for them. (And probably too coherent, too.)