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"Founded in 2002, Bayou Magazine is a biannual, international literary magazine published by The University of New Orleans. Our mission is to publish exceptional, exciting work by both established and emerging writers."
Introduction
Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time
/ 118 days
Average acceptance rate
3.23%

Need to know for submitting

Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox

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      Simultaneous submissions

      Yes

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      Previously published

      No

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      Payment

      No

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      Fee

      No

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      Expedited response

      No

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      Available in print

      Yes

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      Provide contributor copies

      Payment is one contributor copy unless otherwise specified by genre.

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      Examples online

      Yes

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      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 🏗️

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Types of Submissions Accepted

4 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Fiction

Max words: 7500

Max pieces: 1

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Nonfiction

Max words: 7500

Max pieces: 1

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Poetry

Max pieces: 5

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Art

Max pieces: 5

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Fiction

Max words: 7500

Max pieces: 1

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Nonfiction

Max words: 7500

Max pieces: 1

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Poetry

Max pieces: 5

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Art

Max pieces: 5

Magazine

Founded in 2002 | 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 :)

Barb Johnson
Editor-in-Chief
Dorothy Nguyen
Associate Editor
Danielle Unger
Associate Editor
Carolyn Hembree
Poetry Editor
Anne Gisleson
Nonfiction Guest Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

61

Average acceptance rate

3.23%

Average response time

118 days

Average acceptance/rejection time

192/109 days

Fastest response time

10 days

Slowest response time

267 days

Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 1265 days

Contributors on Chill Subs

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1 pieces