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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
Acceptance Rate
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!
18
Total submissions tracked
54 days
Average response time
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
Examples
5 pieces from Chill Subs people
