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"Our goal is to bring compelling, meaningful, insightful fiction and poetry to you on a regular basis. Something you can ponder and gnaw on. Something to bring light, or at least, growth and understanding to our readers."
"Our goal is to bring compelling, meaningful, insightful fiction and poetry to you on a regular basis. Something you can ponder and gnaw on. Something to bring light, or at least, growth and understanding to our readers."
Vibe
Send us your best but less intimidating
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Payment
No
Fee
No
Simultaneous submissions
Yes
Previously published
Yes
Expedited response
No
Available in print
No
Provides contributor copies
No
Examples online
Yes
Active on social media
No
Accepted genres
2 genres
Fiction
Max words: 6000
If your story is over 3000 words, please limit your submission to one story at a time. If your stories are under 3000 words, feel free to se...
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
We are looking for poetry of all types, on all topics, but are not interested in rhyming poetry.
Fiction
Max words: 6000
If your story is over 3000 words, please limit your submission to one story at a time. If your stories are under 3000 words, feel free to se...
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
We are looking for poetry of all types, on all topics, but are not interested in rhyming poetry.
Statistics
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17
Total submissions tracked
909 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
50 days
Fastest response time
3346 days
Slowest response time
How to submit
Process
We use Submittable.
Cover letters
Please include a short third person bio in the submission manager cover letter, as well as the word count for your piece.
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
Please avoid the excessive use of italics as overuse diminishes the effect of italicized text; and our submission manager has trouble keeping such text at the appropriate font size!
Rights for published work
We retain one time rights for electronic publication of your work after which the rights revert back to you, the author.
Additional info
We publish online only, every other month. We can't accept all submissions given the limited space available in our journal, so we may be required to turn down some good pieces. Do not take it personally. Unfortunately, it's part of the process. And this is not a science; there is a lot of subjectivity in the selection process. Please do not send additional submissions before we have responded to your last submission. If we've declined a submission of yours please wait at least a month before submitting again.
About the Magazine
Founded in 2010 | United States
No frivolous pieces here. Your time is too valuable. We're serious about our words, and are selective in what we present to you, sifting through the mountains of words to pull out the diamonds. We bring you our best. And if you're a writer, send us your best. We hope you enjoy the great new Blue Lake Review!
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 :)
Diana May-Waldman
Poetry Editor
Mitchell Waldman
Fiction Editor
Examples
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