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"The national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver, publishing poetry, fiction, essays, and translation folios."
Introduction
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Response Time
within eight weeks / 95 days
Average acceptance rate
33% / 1.2%

Need to know for submitting

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      Simultaneous submissions

      Yes

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      Previously published

      No

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      Payment

      $30 per page

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      Fee

      $2

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      Expedited response

      No

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      Available in print

      Yes

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      Provide contributor copies

      two copies

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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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Fiction

Max pieces: 1

One story or three flash pieces. For prose we do not have any length restrictions—but longer-than-normal pieces have to earn their space.

Flash rules

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 3

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Nonfiction

Max pieces: 1

One essay. For prose we do not have any length restrictions—but longer-than-normal pieces have to earn their space.

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Poetry

Max pieces: 6

four to six poems

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Translations

For a translation feature, submit five to ten poems or a piece of prose (fiction or nonfiction).

fiction genre icon

Fiction

Max pieces: 1

One story or three flash pieces. For prose we do not have any length restrictions—but longer-than-normal pieces have to earn their space.

Flash rules

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 3

nonfiction genre icon

Nonfiction

Max pieces: 1

One essay. For prose we do not have any length restrictions—but longer-than-normal pieces have to earn their space.

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Poetry

Max pieces: 6

four to six poems

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Translations

For a translation feature, submit five to ten poems or a piece of prose (fiction or nonfiction).

Magazine

Founded in 2002 | 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 :)

Wayne Miller
Editor-in-Chief
Joanna Lulof
Co-Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

101

Average acceptance rate

1.2%

Average response time

95 days

Average acceptance/rejection time

-/95 days

Fastest response time

31 days

Slowest response time

133 days

Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 462 days, 939 days