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Deadline

Dec 15, 2023

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"A nonprofit magazine that specializes in weird format/found fiction. Submissions are read blind, so as to reduce editor bias. Horror is preferred, but not required."

"A nonprofit magazine that specializes in weird format/found fiction. Submissions are read blind, so as to reduce editor bias. Horror is preferred, but not required."

Vibe

Weird / outsider / wtf even is it

Response Time

1 month

Acceptance Rate

5%

  • Payment

    Yes

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    Yes

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    Yes

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

2 genres

Fiction

Max pieces: 3

Any form EXCEPT traditional prose. Story lengths from 500-8000 are easiest for us to place, but we accept any length.

Art

No specific limitations

Fiction

Max pieces: 3

Any form EXCEPT traditional prose. Story lengths from 500-8000 are easiest for us to place, but we accept any length.

Art

No specific limitations

Statistics

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Track submission

12

Total submissions tracked

41 days

Average response time

5%

Average acceptance rate

10 days

Fastest response time

76 days

Slowest response time

How to submit

Process

We use email.

Cover letters

We read blind. While there are no penalties for having identifying information on your document, we will ask you to remove it before we read. This is to prevent any subconscious biases- we’re people, after all, we don’t read in a vacuum.

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

Stories can be in any format except traditional prose. Stories told in forum messages? Great! Police blotters? Excellent! Receipts? If you can swing that, we want to see it!

Rights for published work

We do not look to obtain exclusivity. Our contract is for a one-time license for publication and promotion, after which we must ask to include you in anything else.

Additional info

Previously published is allowed. We don’t discriminate in pay between reprints and original fiction. Pays! For the General Zine: $0.01/word plus 50% Royalties after printing. For Between the Shelves (Online only): $20 flat.

About the Magazine

Founded in 2021 | United States

An archive of uncanny occurrences. In other words, a horror zine of unusual formats. Our dedicated archivists preserve all that is strange in this world. Enter our collections and see what others want you to forget.

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 :)

Cormack Baldwin

Editor-in-Chief

Examples

1 pieces from Chill Subs people