"At Cease, Cows we want to explore the contemporary, the strange, the big questions. We want to feel cultural pulses, expose mental arteries, bathe in both the sanguine and sanguinary. We want to publish prose with fire and truth."
Introduction
Vibe
Send us your best but less intimidating
Response Time
2 months (or less) / 15 days
Average acceptance rate
8% / 0%
Need to know for submitting
Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox
Simultaneous submissions
Yes
Previously published
No
Payment
No
Fee
$2
Expedited response
No
Available in print
No
Provide contributor copies
No
Examples online
Yes
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 🏗️
Types of Submissions Accepted
Fiction
No specific limitations
Flash rules
Flash: We want your flash fiction to udderly wow us. We’re bored on this godforsaken farm. Help us pass the time without so much corn whiskey.
all
literary
folklore
magicalRealism
speculative
Poetry
We want prose poetry that makes us pause mid-chew, we want to be moo-ved. Better not send us rhyming poems or we’ll give you the hoof.
Magazine
Founded in 2013 | 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 :)
Susannah Jordan
Editor-in-Chief
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)
Total tracked
14
Average acceptance rate
0% (so far)
Average response time
15 days
Average acceptance/rejection time
-/15 days
Fastest response time
9 days
Slowest response time
29 days