Logo of Denver Quarterly literary magazine
"Experimenting since 1966. Here, there, at the foreground of avant-letters. Cover Art: Stella Nall, DQ 56.1."
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Open for submissions

Introduction
Vibe

Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok

Response Time
Within 3 months. / 46 days
Average acceptance rate
5% / 1.59%

Need to know for submitting

Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox

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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

      No

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      Expedited response

      No

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      Available in print

      Yes

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      Provide contributor copies

      two print copies

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      Examples online

      No

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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

7 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Fiction

Max words: 4000

literary

absurdist

experimental

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Nonfiction

Max words: 4000

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Poetry

Max pieces: 5

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Review

Max words: 3000

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Translations

Up to 5 works or up to 3,000 words, whichever limit comes first.

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Art

Max pieces: 5

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Interview

Max words: 3000

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Fiction

Max words: 4000

literary

absurdist

experimental

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Nonfiction

Max words: 4000

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Poetry

Max pieces: 5

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Review

Max words: 3000

Magazine

Founded in 1966 | 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 :)

W. Scott Howard
Editor-in-Chief
Stella Corso
Associate Editor
Lucien Darjeun Meadows
Managing Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

79

Average acceptance rate

1.59%

Average response time

46 days

Average acceptance/rejection time

-/46 days

Fastest response time

14 days

Slowest response time

92 days

Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 839 days

Contributors on Chill Subs

Swati Sudarsan avatarOlivia Muenz avatar
2 pieces