Submission Journal: The Bad Year

I’ve been submitting short stories pretty regularly for the last seven years, and my acceptance percentage is usually between fifteen and twenty percent, except for one strange, terrible year. In 2017 I managed only a measly 7% acceptance rate. But why? Well, first some context. Let’s take a look at my overall submission numbers for 2016, 2017, and 2018.

Year
Subs
Reject
Withdrawn
Accept
Acc %


2016
53
43
2
10
20%


2017
73
64
4
5
7%


2018
120
100
4
19
16%

Okay, as you can see, 2016 was ...