I have a cold and I’m a little bleary today, so this could be wronger than usual. But I think this is where my numbers stand for the 2011 calendar year.
Number of submissions made (the whole shebang): 93
Number of rejections: 59
Personal: 24
Form: 34
Hard to say: 1
Number of acceptances: 5
Longest time out: 329 days (I’m looking at you, McSweeney’s)
Shortest time out: 0 (a tie between Word Riot and Indiana Review–although the IR piece was one I withdrew.)
What’s that definition of insanity, again? Something something something…expecting different results?
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Karen, this is a great compilation and I’d say 5 out of 93 isn’t bad…but I’m very curious to know about the “hard to say” which is either a form letter so well done it seems personal, or a personal response that is so cold is seems formulaic, yes? Thanks for all this.
I think your count must not include all my acceptances.
ACCEPT!