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"A Lit Mag That Doesn't Stink. Dead Skunk wants your ink-smeared paragraphs and ripped journal pages. Send us your lyric essays, haikus, and experimental fiction."
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Need to know for submitting

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      Simultaneous submissions

      Yes

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      Previously published

      No

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      Payment

      No

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      Fee

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      Expedited response

      No

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      Available in print

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      Provide contributor copies

      No

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      Examples online

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      Active on social media

      Yes

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    Important stuff

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    How to submit 🏗️

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    Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️

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    Awards

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    Demographics & Eligibility

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    Formatting requirements 🏗️

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    Rights for published work 🏗️

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Types of Submissions Accepted

5 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Fiction

Max words: 3000

Max pieces: 1

Flash rules

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 1

literary

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Nonfiction

Max words: 3000

Max pieces: 1

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Poetry

Max pieces: 3

All forms and styles of poetry on any and all subjects. Song lyrics, villanelles, Twitter threads - whatever you can poeticize, we'll consider.

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Hybrid

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 3

Hybrid/Experimental Total word count under 1000. As long as we can squeeze them on our website and they are cohesive with your words, we welcome hybrid pieces that contain original art, music, or your best pepperoni roll recipe. 

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Anything

No specific limitations

fiction genre icon

Fiction

Max words: 3000

Max pieces: 1

Flash rules

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 1

literary

nonfiction genre icon

Nonfiction

Max words: 3000

Max pieces: 1

poetry genre icon

Poetry

Max pieces: 3

All forms and styles of poetry on any and all subjects. Song lyrics, villanelles, Twitter threads - whatever you can poeticize, we'll consider.

hybrid genre icon

Hybrid

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 3

Hybrid/Experimental Total word count under 1000. As long as we can squeeze them on our website and they are cohesive with your words, we welcome hybrid pieces that contain original art, music, or your best pepperoni roll recipe. 

Magazine

Founded in 2021 | United States

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 :)

Suzanne Samples
Co-founder, Fiction, Nonfiction , and Hybrid Sniffer
E. Samples
Co-founder, Poetry and Hybrid Sniffer
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

3

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0% (so far)

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Contributors on Chill Subs

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1 pieces