Cutleaf
Literary Magazine
Cutleaf seeks the best in contemporary writing in prose and verse from emerging and established writers.
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Highlights
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 3 months*/Editor reported data25 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: / 2.19%*Chill Subs tracker stats
Payssee Genres section for details
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
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 - 6000 words max
Max words: 6000
Max pieces: 3
Sub Genres: Literary
Payment: $100-400
Fiction - 1000 words max
Max words: 1000
Sub Genres: Literary
Payment: $100-400
Nonfiction - 6000 words max
Max words: 6000
Payment: $100-400
Poetry
Max pieces: 7
Payment: $ 50 per piece
How to submit
Processs
Submittable
Cover letter
The author's name, mailing address and email should appear on the first page of the manuscript.
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
Manuscripts must be submitted as a MS Word file set in a standard 12-point font (such as Times New Roman). Prose should be double-spaced with numbered pages. Poems should be spaced as the author expects them to appear in the journal.
Author's rights
Cutleaf acquires non-exclusive first serial rights throughout North America to publish work in all editions of Cutleaf, wherever published and distributed, including hard copy and electronic formats. We reserve the right to make any work that we’ve published available in the Cutleaf archives on our website. Should a piece first published in Cutleaf be reprinted in another work, we request the later publication include an acknowledgment of Cutleaf.
Additional info
Pays! "from $100 to $400 for published fiction and nonfiction. from $50 to $200 for published poetry" Promote writers even after publication - hype hype hype
Tracker statistics
87
Total submissions tracked
25 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
2 days
Fastest response time
186 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 423 days
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Submission calls
Poetry
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About
Cutleaf publishes a new issue online every other week, as well as The Cutleaf Reader, our annual print anthology. A project of EastOver Press, Cutleaf seek work that responds to our common experience and reflects our differences. We are interested in work by all writers, especially those historicall...
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2021
Country
US
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Editor-in-Chief
Keith Lesmeister
Editor
Denton Loving
Editor
Kelly March
Editor
Walter Robinson
Editor