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Guidelines

"Seeking the wonderful and the bizarre, the beautiful and the dark. Home to all things dark and lovely. "

"Seeking the wonderful and the bizarre, the beautiful and the dark. Home to all things dark and lovely. "

Vibe

Weird / outsider / wtf even is it

Response Time

2 months / 48 days

Acceptance Rate

13.33%

  • Payment

    No

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    Yes

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    No

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

4 genres

Fiction

Max words: 5000

Max pieces: 1

If you have something longer than 5000 words that you think we might love, send a query.

Flash Fiction

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 1

Send one (1) piece of flash fiction of up to 1000 words.

Micro Fiction

Max words: 250

Max pieces: 3

Poetry

Max pieces: 3

Fiction

Max words: 5000

Max pieces: 1

If you have something longer than 5000 words that you think we might love, send a query.

Flash Fiction

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 1

Send one (1) piece of flash fiction of up to 1000 words.

Micro Fiction

Max words: 250

Max pieces: 3

Poetry

Max pieces: 3

Statistics

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Track submission

97

Total submissions tracked

48 days

Average response time

13.33%

Average acceptance rate

3 days

Fastest response time

84 days

Slowest response time

*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 122 days, 140 days, 146 days

How to submit

Process

crowcrosskeys [at] gmail [dot] com

Cover letters

You don’t need to write a formal cover letter and we do not need your address, but we would love to get to know you! Include a brief third-person bio in your email and any relevant social media/website links—if accepted, your bio can be updated at any time, just let us know.

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

Please attach submissions as .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .otf files and include a PDF version for reference if your work has specific layout needs. Please do not paste submissions into the body of your email.

Rights for published work

We claim first electronic rights and non-exclusive archival rights. But the copyright of your work always remains yours. Where possible, we request exclusivity for 30 days post-publishing. After that, you are free to post/submit it wherever you choose. If the work is published elsewhere, we ask that you credit Crow & Cross Keys as the first publisher.

Additional info

Active on social media Accept previously published: "prefer work that has not been published recently" "Contract includes clause for back-paying each contributor in the event we become a paying market" Will not knowingly accept AI-generated work.

About the Magazine

Founded in 2020 | United Kingdom

Crow & Cross Keys is a new, online literary journal that plucks fiction and poetry from skeletal trees and gives it a place to take root. Send us your skeleton keys, your tar-black feathers, send us your calcified forests and ramshackle castles. Take us somewhere beautiful and dark and strange.

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 :)

Elou Carroll

Editor-in-Chief