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"We like words."
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Need to know for submitting

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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

      No

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      Provide contributor copies

      No

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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: 5000

Max pieces: 1

Flash rules

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 1

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Nonfiction

Max words: 5000

Max pieces: 1

creative non-fiction

Flash rules

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 1

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Review

Max words: 5000

book reviews

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Poetry

Max pieces: 5

up to 5 pages of poems (only 1 per page)

fiction genre icon

Fiction

Max words: 5000

Max pieces: 1

Flash rules

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 1

nonfiction genre icon

Nonfiction

Max words: 5000

Max pieces: 1

creative non-fiction

Flash rules

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 1

review genre icon

Review

Max words: 5000

book reviews

poetry genre icon

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

up to 5 pages of poems (only 1 per page)

Magazine

Founded in ? | 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 :)

Nicholas Johnson
Editor-in-Chief
Maureen Holm
Founder
Alyssa Yankwitt
Poetry Editor
Christopher Cappelluti
Fiction & Nonfiction Editor
Barry Wallenstein
Associate Editor
Richard Levine
Associate Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

2

Average acceptance rate

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Average response time

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Average acceptance/rejection time

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Fastest response time

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Slowest response time

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Contributors on Chill Subs

Chelsea Fanning avatar
1 pieces