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"Eastern New Mexico University’s literary magazine, El Portal, offers a unique venue for the work of writers, artists and photographers"
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Open for submissions

Introduction
Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time
120 business days
Average acceptance rate
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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

      No

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      Provide contributor copies

      yes

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      Examples online

      Yes

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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: 4000

Short Stories (up to 4,000 words)

Flash rules

Max words: 500

Flash Fiction (up to 500 words)

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Nonfiction

Max words: 4000

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Poetry

Max pieces: 5

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Art

Max pieces: 5

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Photography

Max pieces: 5

fiction genre icon

Fiction

Max words: 4000

Short Stories (up to 4,000 words)

Flash rules

Max words: 500

Flash Fiction (up to 500 words)

nonfiction genre icon

Nonfiction

Max words: 4000

poetry genre icon

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

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Art

Max pieces: 5

Magazine

Founded in 1939 | 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 :)

Audra Bagwell
Editor-in-Chief
Cody Wilhelm
Assistant Editor
Tenika Heidelberg
Editor/Web Designer
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

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Average acceptance rate

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Average response time

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