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"Feminist magazine celebrating poetry and prose by cis women, trans, nonbinary, Two-Spirit, agender, genderqueer, GNC, and intersex writers."
Introduction
Vibe

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Response Time
12 to 15 weeks / 76 days
Average acceptance rate
11.11%

Need to know for submitting

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      Simultaneous submissions

      Yes

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      Previously published

      No

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      Payment

      $50-150

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      Fee

      No

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      Expedited response

      No

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      Available in print

      Yes

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      Provide contributor copies

      a complimentary copy of the issue in which your work appears

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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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Play

For play excerpts, please limit submissions to 5-8 pages.

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Poetry

Max pieces: 5

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Nonfiction

Max words: 3500

creative non-fiction

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Fiction

Max words: 3500

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Play

For play excerpts, please limit submissions to 5-8 pages.

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Poetry

Max pieces: 5

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Nonfiction

Max words: 3500

creative non-fiction

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Fiction

Max words: 3500

Magazine

Founded in ? | Canada

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 :)

AMY LEBLANC
Editor-in-Chief
MANAHIL BANDUKWALA
DIGITAL CONTENT EDITOR
TREE ABRAHAM
PUBLISHER & ART DIRECTOR
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

17

Average acceptance rate

11.11%

Average response time

76 days

Average acceptance/rejection time

60/79 days

Fastest response time

52 days

Slowest response time

99 days