The Cloudscent Journal
Literary Magazine
A youth-run literary magazine, driven with nothing more than a desire for artists to have a place where they feel completely safe being themselves, no matter who they are and where they come from.
Highlights
This magazine may have some eligibility requirements
Please double-check before submitting.
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 3 months*Editor reported data
- Acceptance rate: 17% *Editor reported data
PaysNo
FeeNo
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
From the editors
Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net
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 - 2000 words max
Max words: 2000
Max pieces: 2
Sub Genres: Literary
Nonfiction - 2000 words max
Max words: 2000
Max pieces: 2
Poetry
Max pieces: 3
Art
Max pieces: 5
How to submit
Processs
Google / other forms
Cover letter
If you are submitting poetry or prose, please have a cover letter and a third-person biography prepared, and if you are submitting art, please have an artist's statement briefly describing your work along with a third-person biography prepared.
Eligibility
Young creators
young artists ages 12-25Formatting
Your submission must be attached as a PDF or Word document. We ask that you label each file the title of your work. Please do not include any identifying information anywhere in your work.
Author's rights
If accepted, we ask for first serial rights and archival rights upon publication. If your work has been previously published, we ask for second serial rights and archival rights. All rights will revert back to the author immediately following publication.
Additional info
We only accept work from writers ages 12-25 The Cloudscent Journal currently accepts all forms of art.
Tracker statistics
27
Total submissions tracked
66 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
18 days
Fastest response time
208 days
Slowest response time
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About
We strive to publish work that says more about you than anything else. No limitations, no boundaries. We want to see work that floats the empyreans, morphs the skies, evokes the surreal, the avant-garde. We believe every voice deserves to be shared in a safe space, and we strongly encourage artists ...
Read moreFounded
2022
Country
US
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Vivian Huang
Editor-in-Chief