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"Each Wednesday, we publish one author’s work in The Cobalt Weekly on cobaltreview.com. This could be a short story, essay, one or more poems, a book review, an interview, or something entirely different."
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Open for submissions

Deadline

December 31, 2023

Introduction
Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time
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Average acceptance rate
25%

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

      No

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      Fee

      No

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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

      No

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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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Interview

Max words: 3000

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Review

Max words: 3000

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Fiction

Max words: 3000

Although Cobalt is primarily focused on literary fiction, we will happily consider genre and experimental fiction as well. Types of fiction in which we are not currently interested include YA, “inspirational,” or erotica.

all

literary

experimental

historical

humor

lgbtq

romance

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Nonfiction

Max words: 3000

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Poetry

No specific limitations

interview genre icon

Interview

Max words: 3000

review genre icon

Review

Max words: 3000

fiction genre icon

Fiction

Max words: 3000

Although Cobalt is primarily focused on literary fiction, we will happily consider genre and experimental fiction as well. Types of fiction in which we are not currently interested include YA, “inspirational,” or erotica.

all

literary

experimental

historical

humor

lgbtq

romance

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Nonfiction

Max words: 3000

Magazine

Founded in 2011 | 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 :)

Samantha Stanco
Editor
Andrew Keating
Editor
Gail Marlene Schwartz
Editor
Donora Shaw
Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

10

Average acceptance rate

25%

Average response time

-

Average acceptance/rejection time

-/-

Fastest response time

-

Slowest response time

-

Contributors on Chill Subs

Matt Rowan  avatar
1 pieces