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"Independent Chicago Literature since 1977. We love work that is personal and political and shows that you can write beautifully and incisively about important subjects."
Introduction
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Response Time
111 days
Average acceptance rate
14.29%

Need to know for submitting

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      Simultaneous submissions

      Yes

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      Previously published

      No

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      Payment

      No

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      Fee

      No

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      Expedited response

      No

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      Available in print

      No

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      Provide contributor copies

      No

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      Examples online

      Yes

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      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 🏗️

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Types of Submissions Accepted

8 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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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.

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Poetry

We publish all kinds. We’re not reading poetry now.

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Translations

No specific limitations

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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.

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Art

No specific limitations

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Photography

No specific limitations

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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 genre icon

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 genre icon

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.

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Poetry

We publish all kinds. We’re not reading poetry now.

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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

Contributors on Chill Subs

Laura Nagle avatarKlein Voorhees avatarZachary Kocanda avatar
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