Cult Magazine
Literary Magazine
Cult, as the name suggests, wants the weird, the risk-taking: the stuff that gets tucked away because someone thinks no one would ever publish that. We want art that challenges and confronts; not coddles and reaffirms.
Highlights
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 2-5 months*/Editor reported data63 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: / 9.68%*Chill Subs tracker stats
Pays$25-$40
Find more details in the Genres section
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
From the editors
Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
From the editors
If you get into a print issue, we pay you and send you a copy.
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
From the editors
5
What's that?
Expedited submission: When the magazine offers a faster response time for an extra fee
Fiction
Sub Genres: Literary
Payment: $25-40
Nonfiction
Payment: $25-40
No specific limitations
Poetry
Payment: $25-40
No specific limitations
Hybrid
Payment: $25-40
No specific limitations
Review
Payment: $25-40
No specific limitations
Interview
Payment: $25-40
No specific limitations
Art
Payment: $25-40
No specific limitations
Photography
Payment: $25-40
No specific limitations
Comics
Payment: $25-40
No specific limitations
Audio
Payment: $25-40
No specific limitations
Video
Payment: $25-40
No specific limitations
Wtf is genre, send anything
Payment: $25-40
How to submit
Processs
Submittable
Cover letter
In hopes of building a community and making real connections with our artists, we plan to call each person we choose to publish so, please, alongside your name, genre (poetry, fiction, photography, etc.), the title of your work , as well as a brief description of yourself, please include your phone number.
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
Please make sure we can read it. Have proper indentation. Don't use Comic Sans or Calibri, please.
Author's rights
By providing any content on cultmag.net you hereby agree to grant cultmag.net and its editors and affiliates an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, fully-paid, royalty-free, unconditional, transferable, non-exclusive license, with the unlimited right to grant sublicenses, under any of your copyrights and licensable copyright moral rights in any works included on cultmag.net to reproduce, make derivative works of (and register such derivative works), distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, transmit, and otherwise use such works in any manner and in any medium and you hereby agree to irrevocably waive all moral rights in any content provided on cultmag.net.
Additional info
We offer expedited submissions now.
Tracker statistics
120
Total submissions tracked
63 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
4 days
Fastest response time
140 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 236 days, 184 days, 201 days, 211 days
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About
Simply put, we’re tired of so many barriers to entry. Whether it’s word count, subject matter limitations, political or religious implications, we’re tired of seeing so many great works being cast aside for one arbitrary reason or another. So, we created a space where that kind of work can thrive. W...
Read moreFounded
2022
Country
US
Masthead
JAKE HARGROVE
Editor-in-Chief
MATT GILLICK
MANAGING EDITOR
SAM KESHISHIAN
Art and Design
FRAZER ROBERTSON
Arts Editor
RO DANIELS
Associate Editor
SAMANTHA SEWELL
Associate Editor