Every December the NO-meter wraps up the year, the way music apps wrap up your playlists: only here the hits are rejections. The numbers come straight from the author’s submission tracker. The cards are yours to download and share, preferably with an editor.
Rejection Wrapped 2025
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41 NOs
collected in 2025
100% of every decided submission came back NO.
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Top genre: SF
your most rejected genre
36 NOs, 97% of all rejected short stories. The market has spoken. Loudly.
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Worst day: September 7
the day the inbox bled
2 rejections in a single day.
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39 in a row
longest NO streak
Consecutive rejections without a single YES in between.
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Busiest month: September
peak rejection season
12 NOs in one month.
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Same day
fastest NO
And the slowest took 86 days. Patience is a virtue nobody pays for.
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6 NOs, one piece
the most rejected single piece
Same manuscript, over and over. It is still out there. So is the author.
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0 YES
in 2025
Not one. The lemon stayed bitter all year.
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Other years: 2026
Counted from the author's own submission tracker, the same numbers as the NO-meter. No titles, no venues. Poems are tracked without reply dates, so their NOs are dated by the typical wait.
