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Guidelines

"We're an online journal open year-round and are a sister publication of the Chicago Review of Books!"

"We're an online journal open year-round and are a sister publication of the Chicago Review of Books!"

Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time

4 months / 70 days

Acceptance Rate

0%

  • Payment

    No

  • 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

4 genres

Fiction

Max words: 5000

Max pieces: 1

Nonfiction

Max words: 5000

Max pieces: 1

Hybrid

Max words: 5000

Max pieces: 1

Poetry

Min pieces: 3

Max pieces: 5

up to 3–5 poems, no more than 10 pages total

Fiction

Max words: 5000

Max pieces: 1

Nonfiction

Max words: 5000

Max pieces: 1

Hybrid

Max words: 5000

Max pieces: 1

Poetry

Min pieces: 3

Max pieces: 5

up to 3–5 poems, no more than 10 pages total

Statistics

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Track submission

21

Total submissions tracked

70 days

Average response time

0%

Average acceptance rate

30 days

Fastest response time

122 days

Slowest response time

*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 357 days

How to submit

Process

To submit your work, email the editors at arcturusmag@gmail.com (unless you’re entering one of our writing contests). Please address the appropriate editor (see the masthead at the bottom of the About page) and use the subject line: GENRE: Title of Work (ex. FICTION: My Story).

Cover letters

Provide a brief cover letter and third person bio.

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

Attach your work as either a Word Doc, or PDF.

Rights for published work

For original, previously unpublished work, we only ask for First North American Serial Rights (i.e., to be the first publication in North America to publish it), after which the rights return to you.

Additional info

About the Magazine

Founded in 2016 | United States

The Chicago Review of Books presents Arcturus, an online literary magazine of new perspectives in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid genres. Inspired by Chicago’s early modernist literary magazines like The Dial (1880), Poetry (1912), and The Little Review (1914), we’ve published a diverse array of writers and poets since our founding in 2016, including Kristine Ong Muslim, Scott Blackwood, Allegra Hyde, Berit Ellingsen, Daniel Peña, Maryse Meijer, Sam Weller, Michelle Pretorious, Ting Gou, and many others.

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 :)

Sara Cutaia

Editor-in-Chief

Adam Morgan

Founder + Publisher

Rachel León

Fiction Editor

Chrissy Martin

Poetry Editor

Roseanna Alice Boswell

Poetry Editor

Sophie Amado

Nonfiction Editor