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"We like prose poems, narrative poems, lyrics poems, erasure poems, hybrids, you name it. There’s definitely a soft spot in our hearts for well worded narrative poems that teach us something new."

"We like prose poems, narrative poems, lyrics poems, erasure poems, hybrids, you name it. There’s definitely a soft spot in our hearts for well worded narrative poems that teach us something new."

Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time

9 months / 318 days

Acceptance Rate

16.67%

  • Payment

    Yes

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    Yes

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    No

  • Provides contributor copies

    Yes: 2 copies

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

4 genres

Fiction

Max words: 6000

Max pieces: 1

Short Prose should be under 3000 words, under 2000 is even better. You may submit 1 piece via the free portal (or 2 pieces if they are each ...

Flash Fiction

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 2

Poetry

Max lines: 80

Max pieces: 5

We like prose poems, narrative poems, lyrics poems, erasure poems, hybrids, you name it.

Hybrid

Max pieces: 3

Short Prose should be under 3000 words, under 2000 is even better. You may submit 1 piece via the free portal (or 2 pieces if they are each ...

Fiction

Max words: 6000

Max pieces: 1

Short Prose should be under 3000 words, under 2000 is even better. You may submit 1 piece via the free portal (or 2 pieces if they are each ...

Flash Fiction

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 2

Poetry

Max lines: 80

Max pieces: 5

We like prose poems, narrative poems, lyrics poems, erasure poems, hybrids, you name it.

Hybrid

Max pieces: 3

Short Prose should be under 3000 words, under 2000 is even better. You may submit 1 piece via the free portal (or 2 pieces if they are each ...

Statistics

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Track submission

17

Total submissions tracked

318 days

Average response time

16.67%

Average acceptance rate

74 days

Fastest response time

604 days

Slowest response time

How to submit

Process

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Cover letters

Coming soon! Advice from editors on what your cover letter and bio should look like!

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

Coming soon! All the Times New Romans and double spaces!

Rights for published work

Coming soon! First, third, none, all the rights!

Additional info

We nominate pieces for all of the various year-end anthologies we can find—the Pushcart Prize, the multiple Best Americans, Best New Poets, O.Henry and Best of the Net, as well as any others we discover. Don't include your name in the document or file. We currently pay $30 per piece, or $100 for a feature—the author’s payment rising with the more Pay-it-Forward submissions we receive. Features are ‘folios’ from the same writer which will be published all together, and carry a payment of $100. There should be something that unites the pieces, whether it’s a thematic or stylistic unity. Tidepools is an occasional feature of very short works, 25 words and under. These are submitted via the normal portals, and publication in the Tidepools feature pays $10. Waterlogged Paper is the category for pieces which have been published in print but do not appear online. Waterlogged Paper publication pays $10. Coastal Shelf acquires first-time North American electronic rights for work published in Coastal Shelf Magazine as well as anthology rights to reprint the work in print for up to five years with an additional payment of 2 copies of the printed anthology.

About the Magazine

Founded in 2020 | 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 :)

Zebulon Huset

Editor-in-Chief

Examples

1 pieces from Chill Subs people