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"A journal of literature and art that engages with identity politics, including but not limited to: race, gender, sexuality, class, ability, and intersectional identities. We feature fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art."

"A journal of literature and art that engages with identity politics, including but not limited to: race, gender, sexuality, class, ability, and intersectional identities. We feature fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art."

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Response Time

70 days

Acceptance Rate

11.11%

  • Payment

    Yes: $60 per piece

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    No

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    No

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

3 genres

Fiction

Max words: 5000

Max pieces: 1

Nonfiction

Max words: 5000

Max pieces: 1

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

Fiction

Max words: 5000

Max pieces: 1

Nonfiction

Max words: 5000

Max pieces: 1

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

Statistics

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Track submission

31

Total submissions tracked

70 days

Average response time

11.11%

Average acceptance rate

25 days

Fastest response time

144 days

Slowest response time

*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 192 days, 250 days

How to submit

Process

Please use the Apogee Journal Submission Manager: https://apogeejournal.org/subs-mgmt/index.php

Cover letters

Cover letters are optional. Please include a current bio.

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

For prose submissions, please send a maximum of 5,000 words, in either .doc or .docx format. Please send a maximum of five poems in the same document, either .doc, .docx, or .pdf format.

Rights for published work

This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.

Additional info

Our purpose is threefold: (1) to publish fresh work that interrogates the aesthetic and political status quo, (2) to provide a platform for underrepresented voices, prioritizing artists and writers of color (3) to model more radical conversations and practices regarding equity and publishing. Pays! $60/piece

About the Magazine

Founded in 2010 | United States

Apogee is a journal of literature and art that encourages the thoughtful exploration of identity and its intersections, including but not limited to: race, gender, sexuality, class, and ability. We pay tribute to the Black feminist Combahee River Collective in our recognition that “the major systems of oppression are interlocking,” and to that end, work to combat the domination of white, cis-heteronormative, patriarchal voices in our literary landscape. We feature fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. Our purpose is threefold: (1) to publish fresh work that interrogates the aesthetic and political status quo, (2) to provide a platform for underrepresented voices, prioritizing artists and writers of color (3) to model more radical conversations and practices regarding equity and publishing. The word “apogee” denotes the point in an object’s orbit that is farthest from the center. Our approach to both art and political activism operates with the same motivation to center underrepresented artistic voices from the political margins. We want to affect change on multiple levels: to transform ideas, to extend possibilities for writers’ positions in art and literature, and to impact policy. Our staff is composed of writers, teachers, activists, organizers, and nonprofit workers. We identify predominantly as people of color and LGBTQ folks. We recognize that the personal and the political are inseparable. We seek to move beyond representation for its own sake. The marginality of our identities and our commitment to social justice deeply inform our work within and beyond the journal.

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 :)

Alexandra Watson

Editor-in-Chief

Mina Seçkin

Managing Editor

Joey De Jesus

Poetry Editor

Muriel Leung

Poetry Editor

Zefyr Lisowski

Poetry Editor

Crystal Yeung

Poetry Editor

Examples

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