Featuring Fine Literature Rejected at Least Five Times
The Rejected Quarterly
P,O. Box 1351
Cobb, CA 95426
The Rejected Quarterly
Winners of First Annual Rejected Fiction Contest
1st Place: Sharon Ellis
2nd Place: Hannah Gersen
3rd Place: John C. Carter
Notable Rejections Achieved by Richard Kostelanetz
“You must drink lots of strong coffee in order to stay awake long enough to arrange these things that literate kids abandon when they stop playing with asphalt blocks.” —San Miguel Writer
“I don’t care if you waste your time, but why don’t you stop wasting mine? You are a poseur, not a poet.”
— Roberts Ward, Billowing Ark
“I know this is bold of me to say so, but quite frankly I don’t consider your submission to be powtry in any sense of the term, as I understand it.”
— Darby Penny, The Snail’s Pace Review
“You are not a woman. This is by a woman. Sorry.”
