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Response Time
Average acceptance rate
Need to know for submitting
Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox
Simultaneous submissions
Yes
Previously published
No
Payment
No
Fee
No
Expedited response
No
Available in print
No
Provide contributor copies
No
Examples online
Yes
Active on social media
Yes
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Important stuff
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How to submit 🏗️
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Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️
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Awards
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Demographics & Eligibility
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Formatting requirements 🏗️
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Rights for published work 🏗️
Types of Submissions Accepted
Fiction
Max words: 4000
Max pieces: 1
Flash rules
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 3
Nonfiction
Max words: 4000
Max pieces: 1
Creative Nonfiction: 1 essay (not to exceed 4000 words). Excerpts from longer works are acceptable as long as they adhere to our word maximum and can stand alone as essays independent of the larger work.
Flash rules
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 3
Art
Max pieces: 5
Art submissions, including photography, painting, graphics, and comics, will be considered for the cover of Barely South Review.
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
We will cap Poetry submissions at 300.
Photography
Max pieces: 5
Fiction
Max words: 4000
Max pieces: 1
Flash rules
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 3
Nonfiction
Max words: 4000
Max pieces: 1
Creative Nonfiction: 1 essay (not to exceed 4000 words). Excerpts from longer works are acceptable as long as they adhere to our word maximum and can stand alone as essays independent of the larger work.
Flash rules
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 3
Art
Max pieces: 5
Art submissions, including photography, painting, graphics, and comics, will be considered for the cover of Barely South Review.
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
We will cap Poetry submissions at 300.
Magazine
Founded in 1983 | United States
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 :)
Serenity Marshall
Editor-in-Chief
Tope Larayetan
Poetry Editor
Quentin Steadman
Fiction Editor
Veni Fields
Nonfiction Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)
Total tracked
62
Average acceptance rate
7.32%
Average response time
52 days
Average acceptance/rejection time
178/52 days
Fastest response time
29 days
Slowest response time
90 days
Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 168 days, 187 days