Blackbird
Literary Magazine
An online journal of literature and the arts offers visitors from around the world outstanding fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and reviews, as well as plays, visual art, new media, and video essays.
Highlights
- Vibe:Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok
- Response time: 6 months*Editor reported data
- Acceptance rate: ?
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
Sub Genres: All / surprise us
Submission fee: $ 3
Payment: $
Nonfiction
Submission fee: $ 3
Payment: $
Poetry
Max pieces: 6
Submission fee: $ 3
Payment: $
Review
Submission fee: $ 2
No specific limitations
Interview
Submission fee: $ 2
No specific limitations
Translation
Submission fee: $ 3
Payment: $
No specific limitations
Art
Submission fee: $ 3
No specific limitations
Play
Submission fee: $ 3
Payment: $
No specific limitations
How to submit
Processs
Submittable
Cover letter
Please submit a cover letter, either in the Submittable box provided or as the first page of your submission; if you have previously published with Blackbird or received encouragement on a previous submission, please include that information as well.
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.
Author's rights
This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.
Additional info
Tracker statistics
52
Total submissions tracked
165 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
80 days
Fastest response time
281 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 2283 days
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Submission calls
Review, Interview
Art
Masthead
Mary Flinn
Editor-in-Chief
Waverley Vesely
Managing Editor
M.A. Keller
Online and Founding Editor
Gregory Donovan
Founding Editor