#Rejections

Samantha Kolesnik

As we near notification time for the Worst Laid Plans anthology, I'm reminded of how much I dislike sending rejections. As little as I like receiving rejections, I like sending them

While many of us are celebrating the recent #ACL2021nlp acceptances, there are even more of us with papers rejected. This is a reminder that:1. Paper rejections are not about you,

Many don't realize the number of rejections the average entrepreneur gets so this is a thread I'll update throughout the year with all the rejections. First one for the year

Mirya R. Holman

The latest #MHAWS is out and we are talking about coping w *rejections* I detail some (v v healthy) ways of dealing w rejections. Also, a #MeanGirls theme! TL;DR: -

Cynthia (Cina) Pelayo

In terms of rejection, a short-ish thread? Rejection happens all the time. For my 1st novel, it was rejected by 200+ agents. I found a small agency run by women

John Wiswell really likes Halloween

July is now over. We are seven months through 2020 and I have:-8 short story acceptances-29 rejections-3 hold notices-11 stories on submissionFriends! Please keep writing, finishing, editing, submitting, and taking

I know that I am not alone in the #query trenches. I know that I am not the only one who is piling up #rejections and turning the other cheek

Danielle Lupton

#AcademicTwitter Let's talk about rejection in academia. It hurts - truly it does. And it's a key aspect of the discipline that we don't talk about much and don't get

John Wiswell really likes Halloween

August is now over. We are eight months through 2020 and I have:-11 short story and flash acceptances-36 rejections-2 hold notices-11 stories out on submissionFriends out there: please keep writing,

Katelyn Uplinger

KatelynUplinger

TBH, all the angry, bitter emails, tweets, and DMs I get as an agent are worse than the rejections I've gotten while #amquerying my own work because they attack me

claribel a. ortega

Claribel_Ortega

The whole thing that happened with the agent yesterday is bigger than just one person making horrible remarks on twitter, it’s about the undercurrent of rejections that hold that racism

Dagomar Degroot

I always found threads like this to be helpful, partly because I *still* spend days getting over the pain and self-doubt that especially bad rejections bring up. It's nice to

Who has quick turnaround times? I need rejections pronto. I'll add @jmwwjournal, 3 weeks is still a pretty fast rejection.

Cierra Shank is querying Of Peace and Fire

So after a day of pitching to 3 agents and listening to many presentations, here is what my take away it. This industry is so subjective. To all of my

The final verdict is in: I'm not starting my lab in academia. Over the past 2 years I applied to 50 faculty positions. I had 3 onsite interviews but no

Samuel Ayanleye, M.Sc.

Rejections: Are they GOOD or BAD in Scholarship Applications???To all prospective graduate students, I know some of you have received one or more rejection letters in the past days and