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"Lovely as a goose on a roof. Lit mag with print issues twice annually and a new issue online the first Friday of the month."
Introduction
Vibe

Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok

Response Time
81 days
Average acceptance rate
1% / 4%

Need to know for submitting

Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox

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      Simultaneous submissions

      Yes

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      Previously published

      No

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      Payment

      $50

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      Fee

      $3

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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

5 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Fiction

Max words: 7500

Max pieces: 1

literary

lgbtq

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Nonfiction

Max words: 7500

Max pieces: 1

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Poetry

Max pieces: 3

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Comics

--Comics: up to 20 pages, JPEG, width: 850-900px, Landscape preferred

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Audio

--Audio: up to eight minutes of content

fiction genre icon

Fiction

Max words: 7500

Max pieces: 1

literary

lgbtq

nonfiction genre icon

Nonfiction

Max words: 7500

Max pieces: 1

poetry genre icon

Poetry

Max pieces: 3

comics genre icon

Comics

--Comics: up to 20 pages, JPEG, width: 850-900px, Landscape preferred

Magazine

Founded in 2009 | 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 :)

Robert Stapleton
Editor-in-Chief
JD Amick
Associate Editor
Bek Primrose
Associate Editor
Sophie Salerno-Dewald
Poetry Editor
Kate Hilton
Nonfiction Editor
Jeff Marvel
Fiction Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

39

Average acceptance rate

4%

Average response time

81 days

Average acceptance/rejection time

144/77 days

Fastest response time

28 days

Slowest response time

171 days

Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 1899 days

Contributors on Chill Subs

Jami Padgett avatarPeter Mason avatarBenjamin Davis avatar
3 pieces