Overnight, I received this lovely and lengthy rejection informing me that I had first screwed up the formatting of my story (presumably I missed something in the guidelines, which I will double check) and second, that the story was not right for their current issue. However, they invited additional submissions because "we like your writing." So I shall submit more. I also received an unabashedly form rejection for the same story. Here are the two rejection:
Dear Anniken Davenport,
Thank you for submitting "The Scoop" for publication in KYSO Flash. We appreciate the opportunity to read and consider your work. However, your story does not meet our formatting guidelines, nor our needs for Issue 3.
Because we like your writing, we would like to invite you to submit other short works for consideration, with NO additional admin fee required. Please read our formatting guidelines, and then feel free to use the following link, which will accept submissions through the 15th of May, free of charge.
(deleted link as it is indeed a direct link for submitted solicited work)
If this link does not work when you click on it, then please cut and paste it into your browser's address bar.
We look forward to reading more of your writing and hope that you will submit other works soon via this link. And we wish you the best of luck with placing "The Scoop" elsewhere.
All best wishes,
--Clare
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Clare MacQueen
And:
Dear Anniken,
Thank you for your submission of "The Scoop" to Fireside, but we've decided not to accept it for publication. Please forgive the form letter, but due to the high volume of submissions we can't respond personally on each story. We appreciate your interest in Fireside.
Sincerely,
Brian White
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