Better Than Starbucks
Literary Magazine
A quarterly journal, online and in print, which publishes an eclectic selection of creative writing, including poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Submissions are open year round.
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Highlights
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 3 month*Editor reported data
- Acceptance rate: ?
Pays$20
Find more details in the Genres section
FeeNo
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
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
Max pieces: 1
Sub Genres: Literary, Experimental
Payment: $ 20
Fiction - 1000 words max
Max words: 1000
Sub Genres: Literary, Experimental
Payment: $ 20
Nonfiction - 5000 words max
Max words: 5000
Max pieces: 1
Payment: $ 20
Poetry
Max pieces: 4
Payment: $ 20
Translation
Payment: $ 20
No specific limitations
Art
Payment: $ 20
No specific limitations
How to submit
Processs
Email
Cover letter
Please include a short third person bio with your submission.
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
All submissions should be copied into the body of your email. We do not open attachments.
Author's rights
We do not take copyright to any work by any contributors to this publication. We take international publication rights and you also grant us the right to use the work in future anthologies or promotions. The exception to this is work authored by the editors, including interviews.
Additional info
Pays! "$20 via Paypal (to twelve Featured authors)" Accept previously published Hosts an annual Sonnet Contest
Tracker statistics
18
Total submissions tracked
121 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
12 days
Fastest response time
438 days
Slowest response time
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About
First, our goal is to publish as broad a range of interesting voices as we can find. Some of our readers and contributors love particular modes of poetic expression best, or even exclusively; but many of them enjoy the opportunity of exposure to a wide range of approaches and styles. Thus our aim i...
Read moreFounded
2016
Country
US
Masthead
Vera Ignatowitsch
Editor-in-Chief
Kevin McLaughlin
Haiku Editor and Spiritual Adviser
Susan McLean
Poetry Translations Editor
Robert Schechter
Editor of Poetry for Children