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"Aa wonderful selection of stories, poems, and creative nonfiction pieces."
Introduction
Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time
a couple months / 5 days
Average acceptance rate
12.5%

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

      No

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      Examples online

      Yes

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      Active on social media

      No

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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

4 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Fiction

Max words: 10000

Max pieces: 1

Contemporary or genre (sci fi, fantasy, western, weird, surreal, etc., etc., etc.)

all

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Nonfiction

Max words: 10000

Max pieces: 1

ANYTHING from journalistic pieces to lyric essays (long or longer or longest, or short/flash) to articles to ... name it. Try us.

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Poetry

Max pieces: 1

I bet you can't think of a poetry style that isn't included here. Try us with your haiku, your epics, your narrative or story poems, your free verse or blank verse, rhyming beauties, villanelles, ballads, limericks, etc., etc., etc.

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Art

only drawn pieces - sketches and canvas work; NO photography.

fiction genre icon

Fiction

Max words: 10000

Max pieces: 1

Contemporary or genre (sci fi, fantasy, western, weird, surreal, etc., etc., etc.)

all

nonfiction genre icon

Nonfiction

Max words: 10000

Max pieces: 1

ANYTHING from journalistic pieces to lyric essays (long or longer or longest, or short/flash) to articles to ... name it. Try us.

poetry genre icon

Poetry

Max pieces: 1

I bet you can't think of a poetry style that isn't included here. Try us with your haiku, your epics, your narrative or story poems, your free verse or blank verse, rhyming beauties, villanelles, ballads, limericks, etc., etc., etc.

art genre icon

Art

only drawn pieces - sketches and canvas work; NO photography.

Magazine

Founded in 2014 | 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 :)

Chila Woychik
Editor-in-Chief
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

8

Average acceptance rate

12.5%

Average response time

5 days

Average acceptance/rejection time

-/5 days

Fastest response time

5 days

Slowest response time

5 days