Benjamin Roesch

Tag: Rejection

  • Post #94: Looks Like They Heard Me

    Well…so…yeah. You remember how I was griping the other day about rejection and the complex buffet of emotions the up and coming writer must face to overcome, or at least match, its fierce and unrelenting power? So, I guess the rejection gods heard me. Because I’m to have a story…

  • Post #92: This Will Only Hurt a Lot

    I got a very polite rejection yesterday from The Florida Review. They apologized for the delay in responding, contextualized the long wait around some editorial and personal changes, yadda yadda yadda, told me they’d found my story “Unsayable Things” engaging, but that it didn’t meet their editorial needs at this…