Crow & Cross Keys
Literary Magazine
Seeking the wonderful and the bizarre, the beautiful and the dark. Home to all things dark and lovely.
Highlights
- Vibe:Weird / outsider / wtf even is it
- Response time: 2 months*/Editor reported data47 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: / 18.63%*Chill Subs tracker stats
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
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 - 5000 words max
Max words: 1001
Max words: 5000
Max pieces: 1
Sub Genres: Experimental, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Gothic, Horror, LGBTQ+ Stories, Science Fiction, Speculative
Fiction - 1000 words max
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 1
Sub Genres: Experimental, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Gothic, Horror, LGBTQ+ Stories, Magical Realism, Science Fiction, Speculative
Fiction - 250 words max
Max words: 250
Max pieces: 3
Sub Genres: Literary, Experimental, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Gothic, Horror, LGBTQ+ Stories, Magical Realism, Science Fiction, Speculative
Poetry
Max pieces: 3
How to submit
Processs
Email
Cover letter
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.
Author's rights
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.
Tracker statistics
186
Total submissions tracked
47 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
3 days
Fastest response time
146 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 662 days
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Submission calls
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About
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.
Founded
2020
Country
GB
Masthead
Elou Carroll
Editor-in-Chief