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"A new literary magazine in the form of a dynamic universe. We’re interested in connecting and recombining the work we publish and letting the shape of their creations, however seeming-distant in genre or style or intent, tell larger stories together."
"A new literary magazine in the form of a dynamic universe. We’re interested in connecting and recombining the work we publish and letting the shape of their creations, however seeming-distant in genre or style or intent, tell larger stories together."
Vibe
We're just chilling here
Response Time
Acceptance Rate
Payment
Yes: $50
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
5 genres
Fiction
Max words: 3000
Max pieces: 3
Submit no more than 3,000 words in total if sending multiple pieces. We’ll happily consider fiction in all prose forms—prose poetry, micro,...
Nonfiction
Max words: 3000
Max pieces: 3
Submit no more than 3,000 words in total if sending multiple pieces. We’ll happily consider CNF in all prose forms—micro, flash, and beyond...
Poetry
Max pieces: 3
Prose poetry only. We’re not a market for lineated poetry at the moment.
Art
Max pieces: 5
Send us up to five pieces in .jpg, .png, or .pdf format. If your artwork doesn’t work in one of those formats—for example, if you’ve built ...
Photography
Max pieces: 5
Fiction
Max words: 3000
Max pieces: 3
Submit no more than 3,000 words in total if sending multiple pieces. We’ll happily consider fiction in all prose forms—prose poetry, micro,...
Nonfiction
Max words: 3000
Max pieces: 3
Submit no more than 3,000 words in total if sending multiple pieces. We’ll happily consider CNF in all prose forms—micro, flash, and beyond...
Poetry
Max pieces: 3
Prose poetry only. We’re not a market for lineated poetry at the moment.
Art
Max pieces: 5
Send us up to five pieces in .jpg, .png, or .pdf format. If your artwork doesn’t work in one of those formats—for example, if you’ve built ...
Photography
Max pieces: 5
Statistics
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51
Total submissions tracked
44 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
14 days
Fastest response time
83 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: -59 days
How to submit
Process
We use email.
Cover letters
Include a short cover letter, bio, and your work as an attachment(s). We welcome pen names, author names, or pseudonyms. No need to include your legal name, physical address, phone number, or other personal information with your submission—the name you publish under and your email address is enough!
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
.doc, .docx, or .pdf for writing .jpg, .png, or .pdf for art and photography
Rights for published work
We ask for first North American serial rights and non-exclusive print/anthology rights. All copyrights remain yours.
Additional info
We pay a $50 honorarium for work we publish! While we publish batches of new work on the spring/fall equinox and winter/summer solstice, we don't consider them "issues," but rather materializations of the Universe and its constellations. And the Universe may be completely rearranged by a cataclysm at some point... We're open for submission year-round, but switch between free and paid submission periods ($3 via PayPal) throughout the year. Here are the free submission periods for 2023: - March 20th to April 20th - June 21st to July 21st - September 22nd to October 22nd - December 21st to Jan 21, 2024 Work published in Astrolabe has been selected for Best Small Fictions 2023!
About the Magazine
Founded in 2022 | United States
We’re envisioning a Universe that’s expansive and dynamic, inclusive and lush, a perpetual explosion that defies temporal systems of organization or measurement. Instead of publishing sequential issues or a stream of work that relegates what came before to the background, we’re interested in connecting and recombining the work we publish and the artists who make it on an ongoing basis. Letting the shape of their creations, however seeming-distant in genre or style or intent, tell larger stories together. We welcome you to stumble your way through the Universe in search of unexpected connection. And we hope that when you find something you love, you feel drawn to explore the asterism it belongs to, the other stars in its vicinity, the potential meanings of colors and shapes. We hope you’ll look into the voids in this ever-changing Universe and dream up what might, someday, call that place a home.
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 :)
Joel Hans
Editor-in-Chief
Jae Towle Vieira
Editor-in-Chief
Examples
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