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"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."

"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."

Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time

3 month

Acceptance Rate

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  • Payment

    Yes: $20

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    Yes

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    Yes

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

6 genres

Fiction

Max words: 5000

Max pieces: 1

Flash Fiction

Max words: 1000

Flash fiction of up to 1000 words, and micro fiction of up to 100 words.

Nonfiction

Max words: 5000

Max pieces: 1

Poetry

Max pieces: 4

If you are sending short forms such as haiku, limericks, micro poetry or micro fiction send up to six.

Translation

No specific limitations

Art

No specific limitations

Fiction

Max words: 5000

Max pieces: 1

Flash Fiction

Max words: 1000

Flash fiction of up to 1000 words, and micro fiction of up to 100 words.

Nonfiction

Max words: 5000

Max pieces: 1

Poetry

Max pieces: 4

If you are sending short forms such as haiku, limericks, micro poetry or micro fiction send up to six.

Translation

No specific limitations

Art

No specific limitations

Statistics

We're able to provide them because you use our tracker!
You're the best!

Track submission

18

Total submissions tracked

54 days

Average response time

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Average acceptance rate

12 days

Fastest response time

86 days

Slowest response time

*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 178 days, 221 days

How to submit

Process

All submissions via email to betterthanstarbucks2@gmail.com.

Cover letters

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. ​

Rights for published work

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

About the Magazine

Founded in 2016 | United States

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 is to be eclectic: to satisfy the tastes of a diverse readership with the best sampling on offer of assorted genres. Assessing written material is necessarily subjective, so prospective contributors are advised to browse our over 30 issues online and decide for themselves if BTS is the right kind of showcase for them. Second, we are, and will remain, committed to never charging reading or submission fees. I personally have always felt it was adding insult to injury to be asked to pay for the privilege of being read only to wait an eternity to receive a rejection. Third, since our print editions duplicate our online editions, we only accept as many submissions as our print edition — with its more or less fixed number of pages — can hold. As a result, many submissions must be declined due to space limitations, including submissions we might like to publish. Fourth, we remain an unfunded group of dedicated volunteers. Our only income is from a few faithful readers who donate and from print sales. After print sales began, we established Features, paying an honorarium to every writer we featured, and we are now up to seven Features per issue. If our sales and donations increase, our intent is to pay more contributors. They are the ones who create our content.

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 :)

Vera Ignatowitsch

Editor-in-Chief

Kevin McLaughlin

Haiku Editor and Spiritual Adviser

Susan McLean

Poetry Translations Editor

Robert Schechter

Editor of Poetry for Children