Atlas and Alice
Literary Magazine
It’s that kind of intersection—in the case of our title, between literature and science—that interests us. We like things that meet, conjoin, dance, rebound, explode. Bring two things together; see what happens.
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Highlights
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: / 45 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: / 5.15%*Chill Subs tracker stats
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Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
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When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
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Expedited submission: When the magazine offers a faster response time for an extra fee
Fiction - 4000 words max
Max words: 4000
Max pieces: 1
Sub Genres: All / surprise us
Fiction - 1000 words max
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 3
Sub Genres: All / surprise us
Nonfiction - 3000 words max
Max words: 3000
Max pieces: 1
Nonfiction - 1000 words max
Max words: 1000
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
Hybrid
No specific limitations
How to submit
Processs
Submittable
Cover letter
Cover letters: We all hate writing them, don't we? So consider them unnecessary. All we want from you is a short bio and your contact email. If you have something interesting to say, want to mention a piece we published that you like, or how you found out about the magazine, by all means do. If you're just including the same old "My work has been published or is forthcoming from..." then, we encourage you not to write a cover letter.
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
For prose, include the total word count at the beginning of the document. Please format submissions in 1 document.
Author's rights
Atlas and Alice acquires first serial rights, but those rights revert back to you, the artist, upon publication. We kindly ask for acknowledgment for subsequent reprints of your work.
Additional info
We welcome subs from underrepresented writers. This includes (QT)BIPOC folks and writers based outside North America and the UK. Two of our editors have a soft spot for lyric pieces. “More of a seismograph, less of a timeline. I like the fragmented, the segmented which unapologetically doesn’t seek to be whole,” as one of the assistant CNF editors paraphrases Sarah Fawn Montgomery. We strongly prefer content that feels grounded and specific. Evoke a particular place, a particular time. Dig deep into what makes home “home,” the origin of names, etc. There are a few things we DO NOT WANT: 1) your Covid stories (unless you have a particular, unique experience), 2) philosophical musings, 3) boozy expat travel stories, 4) second person breakup stories. If you have a submission that does not fit in the traditional genres, you have our immediate attention. We’re open to various forms of multimedia work.
Tracker statistics
94
Total submissions tracked
45 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
1 days
Fastest response time
294 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 535 days, 535 days
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About
A&A takes its name from the ATLAS and ALICE experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. These experiments look to explain some of the most fundamental characteristics of the universe. For instance, ATLAS contributed to the discovery of (what we think is) the Higgs Boson. Although the names of ...
Read moreFounded
2013
Country
US
Masthead
Benjamin Woodard
Editor-in-Chief
Brendan Todt
Founder
Liz Ann Young
Poetry Editor
Whitney Bryant
Fiction Editor
Cathy Ulrich
Fiction Editor
Lindsey Danis
Creative Nonfiction Editor