In Competition No. 3181 you were invited to submit a letter by a publisher rejecting a well-known literary classic.
The authors of Lolita and The Bell Jar (‘an ill-conceived, poorly written novel’) are among distinguished recipients of multiple rejections. And T.S. Eliot famously turned down George Orwell’s Animal Farm (its shortcomings included the wrong type of pig).
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