Researching the right lit mag for your work can be exhausting.
There are over 3,000—all with different guidelines, tastes, and reading periods. Not knowing how, when, and where to submit is one of the biggest headaches for any writer.
That's where we come in.
Our team of experienced literary magazine editors analyzes your work and creates a personalized submission strategy to help your writing find the right home.
How It Works
Step 1
Submit Your Work
Send us up to 12,000 words or 5 poems along with any preferences (genres, themes, or specific magazines you're interested in).
Step 2
We Research
Our team of experienced lit mag editors will read your work and handpick up to 20 lit mags they believe are most likely to want to publish it.
Your report will include
- Personalized magazine recommendations that fit your writing
- Submission guidelines and deadlines for each publication
- Editor insights on why each magazine was chosen for your work
- Statistical insights from Chill Subs on each magazine
What Writers Are Saying
The list-making service is an invaluable tool for finding the right lit mags/journals to submit my work to. As a poet with a non-literary day job, it's hard enough to find time to write much less find time to read lit mags to know which ones match my aesthetic.
- Will F.
Your expertise has been generous, deeply insightful and always on point. I have learned more from you than from any other service (and I’ve tried a bunch). Please keep up the great work and keep it accessible to a wide range of writers.
- Paula M.
Truly amazing! I’m new-ish to submitting my work (less than five years), and I felt overwhelmed sorting through all lit mags - what they were looking for, deadlines, vibes, how and when to submit. And then along came you. You saved me countless hours of often dead-end research that I’d rather spend writing. Thank you!
- Ellen B.
I’ve found this to be an indispensable part of my writing practice and experience! For every list I’ve submitted, I’ve placed at least one or two poems, sometimes more. As a family caregiver with a very full life, researching journals has been the steepest hill I climb–and to have this assistance has been life-changing for my writing.
- Jeneva S.
Super speedy, super thoughtful. Feels like cheating?? But no, I was thrilled that one of the publications recommended in a list ended up accepting a piece of mine.
- Katherine M.
With these lists I can be smarter with my submission time, effort and money –because people who know the ropes are reviewing my work with an expert eye for best fit. It’s a huge confidence-booster amidst the doldrums of being a novice submitter.
- Jacob E.
Seriously, this process has helped me discover so many wonderful outlets for my work that I never would have attempted or even known about. As a newcomer on the scene, I am learning so much from the suggestions and thoughtful comments. What a gift.
- Reva J.
Our Editorial Team
Steve Chang is a Taiwanese writer and MacDowell Fellow from the San Gabriel Valley, California. His work has appeared in Epiphany, Guernica, North American Review, The Southampton Review, etc. and been commended by the Granum Foundation, The Iron Horse Prize, the Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowship, and even by (some of) his friends. He is thankful for the support of MASS MoCA, Loghaven, Willapa Bay AiR, the KHN Center for the Arts, The Kerouac Project, and the Carolyn Moore Writers House. He edits fiction at Okay Donkey and holds an MFA from Cornell.
Autumn Watts was fiction editor for Guernica Magazine (2014-2024). Editing is her heartwork, but her writing has also found homes in The Craft of Editing, Words Without Borders, AGNI, Indiana Review, and Guernica, among others, mentions in Best American Essays, Wigleaf Best of the Net, and Best New Poets, and support from Bread Loaf and the Community of Writers.