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We push beyond our boundaries, geographically and literarily, while staying true to our roots as a writing group and community, priding ourselves on our personal touch and often working with our contributors to improve work we really, really like into work we love.
Vibe
We're just chilling here
Response Time
Average acceptance rate
Types of Submissions Accepted
Poetry
Max pieces: 3
Fiction
Max pieces: 1
"A single short story or up to 3 flash or micro pieces (fewer than 1,000 words each)." "We have no upper word limits, and aren’t opposed to publishing stories upwards of 5,000 words that justify their real estate."
Flash rules
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 3
all
Nonfiction
Max pieces: 1
"Send a single short work or up to 3 flash or micro pieces (fewer than 1,000 words each)." "We are specifically looking for creative non-fiction for this issue, not scholarly essays about literary genres or subgenres (though if you’re using the tropes of scholarly essays within the context of a narrative or lyric piece, that we do want to see)."
Flash rules
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 3
Hybrid
"Suites: Send up to 5 linked works that will be considered as a set. Individual works within a suite can be poems or flash or micro-length prose (under 1,000 words each). Hybrid/Cross-Genre: Yes, please. Follow whichever of the above guidelines makes the most sense."
Poetry
Max pieces: 3
Fiction
Max pieces: 1
"A single short story or up to 3 flash or micro pieces (fewer than 1,000 words each)." "We have no upper word limits, and aren’t opposed to publishing stories upwards of 5,000 words that justify their real estate."
Flash rules
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 3
all
Nonfiction
Max pieces: 1
"Send a single short work or up to 3 flash or micro pieces (fewer than 1,000 words each)." "We are specifically looking for creative non-fiction for this issue, not scholarly essays about literary genres or subgenres (though if you’re using the tropes of scholarly essays within the context of a narrative or lyric piece, that we do want to see)."
Flash rules
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 3
Hybrid
"Suites: Send up to 5 linked works that will be considered as a set. Individual works within a suite can be poems or flash or micro-length prose (under 1,000 words each). Hybrid/Cross-Genre: Yes, please. Follow whichever of the above guidelines makes the most sense."
Need to know for submitting
Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox
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Details
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How to submit 🏗️
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Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️
04
Awards
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Demographics & Eligibility
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Formatting requirements 🏗️
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Rights for published work 🏗️
Magazine
Founded in 2013 | United States
Masthead
We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)
Jess Simms
Editor-in-Chief
Nathan Kukulski
Fiction Editor
Shawn Maddey
Poetry Editor
Liz Abeling
Nonfiction Editor
Daniel Parme
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)
Total tracked
39
Average acceptance rate
8.82%
Average response time
14 days
Average acceptance/rejection time
21/12 days
Fastest response time
1 days
Slowest response time
21 days
