BarBar
Literary Magazine
An online literary publication to provoke, inspire, and nourish. Send us your unfiltered voice and your outside-the-box creations. Be BarBar.
Highlights
- Vibe:
- Response time: two months*/Editor reported data89 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: / 41.59%*Chill Subs tracker stats
PaysNo
Fee$7
Find more details in the Genres section
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
From the editors
Pushcart Prize
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
What's that?
Expedited submission: When the magazine offers a faster response time for an extra fee
Fiction - 5000 words max
Max words: 5000
Sub Genres: All / surprise us
Submission fee: $ 7
Nonfiction - 5000 words max
Max words: 5000
Submission fee: $ 7
Poetry
Submission fee: $ 7
No specific limitations
Hybrid
Max words: 5000
Submission fee: $ 7
Art
Submission fee: $ 7
No specific limitations
Photography
Submission fee: $ 7
No specific limitations
Play
Submission fee: $ 7
No specific limitations
Wtf is genre, send anything
Submission fee: $ 7
How to submit
Processs
Submittable
Cover letter
We do not require cover letters, or an artist bio. However, a short bio in 3rd person, including social media handles is encouraged.
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
Please submit all written work as a .doc, .docx, or pdf. We have a soft cap word count of 5000 words for prose. Poetry submissions should include no more than five poems, all being submitted in a single doc. Please adhere to standard formatting when submitting prose. 12pt font, Times Roman or similar. Poetry or Prose with unconventional paragraph structure is encouraged, but if accepted, we cannot guarantee our website can duplicate non-standard spacing.
Author's rights
Not specified.
Additional info
We accept many types of submissions, including: poetry, fiction, flash fiction, plays, musicals, lyrics, essays, nonfiction, novel excerpts, photography, and art. Writers are free to enter multiple submissions whether in the same category or in several at once.
Tracker statistics
45
Total submissions tracked
89 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
30 days
Fastest response time
104 days
Slowest response time
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General
About
We publish fresh takes, original voices, pieces that provoke, inspire and nourish, and some that are just damn weird. We aspire to have a library so eclectic—whether you’re a romantic, a bookworm, or a genre junkie looking for an escape from the humdrum—you’ve got a home away from home in BarBar. ...
Read moreFounded
2020
Country
Masthead
Cory Nolan
Editor-in-Chief
Adelie O. Condra
Editor