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"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
Acceptance Rate
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
We're able to provide them because you use our tracker!
You're the best!
97
Total submissions tracked
48 days
Average response time
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
