How To Get 100 Poetry Journal Rejections

Read, write, and submit, submit, submit

Trapper Markelz
11 min readDec 29, 2021

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At the beginning of 2021, I decided to participate in the #100Rejections challenge. I don’t remember where I originally heard about it, but the challenge is to submit your work over 100 times to ensure that you get rejected by 100 journals. It sounded like a great way to learn the process of submission and give me a writing goal…

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Trapper Markelz

Trapper Markelz (he/him) is a poet who writes from Boston, MA. His work has appeared in numerous journals and publications. Check out http://trappermarkelz.com