The Bevel Summers Prize for the Short Short Story, form rejection
Dear Contestant:
Thank you for sending work to Shenandoah’s Bevel Summers contest. I’m sorry to report that your story (stories) was not selected as a finalist, but the process of elimination was challenging, and we found over fifty stories that might, at another time, have been right for us. Overall, we received over a thousand short short stories from 800 authors, and we’re happy to report that the state of this genre or sub-genre is robust and exciting. We’ll run the contest again next spring and try to iron out any glitches in the submission process. Thank you for helping to make this contest a success. Our website will announce the winner in late August.
The Editors