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27 Reasons Why Short Stories are Rejected
Steve Moran at The Willesden Herald provides 27 reasons why short stories are rejected. Not all of these apply to VQR (we don’t get a lot of “faux jollity centred around pubs in Ireland”), but these really are some good guidelines for fiction writers to keep in mind. You remember The Willesden Herald for their aborted short story competition, a result of not a single submission being up to snuff.