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"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!"
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Send us your best but less intimidating
Response Time
Acceptance Rate
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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You're the best!
21
Total submissions tracked
70 days
Average response time
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For original, previously unpublished work, we only ask for First North American Serial Rights (i.e., to be the first publication in North America to publish it), after which the rights return to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
