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Response Time
Average acceptance rate
Need to know for submitting
Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox
Simultaneous submissions
Yes
Previously published
No
Payment
No
Fee
No
Expedited response
No
Available in print
No
Provide contributor copies
No
Examples online
Yes
Active on social media
Yes
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Important stuff
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How to submit 🏗️
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Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️
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Awards
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Demographics & Eligibility
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Formatting requirements 🏗️
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Rights for published work 🏗️
Types of Submissions Accepted
Fiction
We publish short-short to long, no restrictions on style or content, though we prefer work that is 7500 words or fewer. We’re reading now.
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Nonfiction
We seek memoir, reported essays, braided essays, collages, vignettes, extremely literary journalism, oral history, meditations, combinations of the previous. Short, long, medium. Political in the largest sense. We are reading now.
Poetry
We publish all kinds. We’re not reading poetry now.
Translations
No specific limitations
Review
Unlike many other literary magazines, ACM welcomes book reviews and review-essays about history and social issues. We’re most interested in books that provide new ways of looking at subjects. We also publish reviews and review-essays of works of literature. We encourage creativity in form. We occasionally publish reviews of other art forms. We now have separate review portals for poetry and for prose. Publishers and authors may also send queries through those portals.
Art
No specific limitations
Photography
No specific limitations
Interview
We are open to queries about interviews with writers, activists, artists, and public intellectuals. As a rule, we require interviews to be conducted in person, by phone, by Zoom or the like.
Fiction
We publish short-short to long, no restrictions on style or content, though we prefer work that is 7500 words or fewer. We’re reading now.
all
Nonfiction
We seek memoir, reported essays, braided essays, collages, vignettes, extremely literary journalism, oral history, meditations, combinations of the previous. Short, long, medium. Political in the largest sense. We are reading now.
Poetry
We publish all kinds. We’re not reading poetry now.
Translations
No specific limitations
Magazine
Founded in 1977 | 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 :)
S.L. Wisenberg
Editor
Sasha Weiss
Managing Editor
Erik Noonan
Associate Managing Editor
Tamara Matthews
Fiction Editor
Neil Blackadder
Translations Editor
Erica Jasmin Dixon
Poetry Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)
Total tracked
9
Average acceptance rate
14.29%
Average response time
111 days
Average acceptance/rejection time
113/109 days
Fastest response time
109 days
Slowest response time
113 days
