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Deadline

Dec 31, 2023

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"Published three times a year by the Georgia State University Department of English, each issue features poetry, fiction, essays, and interviews with the most compelling writers working today. "

"Published three times a year by the Georgia State University Department of English, each issue features poetry, fiction, essays, and interviews with the most compelling writers working today. "

Vibe

Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok

Response Time

44 days

Acceptance Rate

0%

  • Payment

    No

  • Fee

    Yes: $2

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    No

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    Yes

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

5 genres

Fiction

Max words: 7500

Max pieces: 1

Flash Fiction

Max words: 500

Max pieces: 1

Also accepting Very Short Prose.

Nonfiction

Max words: 7500

Max pieces: 1

Flash Nonfiction

Max words: 500

Max pieces: 1

Poetry

Max lines: 50

Max pieces: 3

Fiction

Max words: 7500

Max pieces: 1

Flash Fiction

Max words: 500

Max pieces: 1

Also accepting Very Short Prose.

Nonfiction

Max words: 7500

Max pieces: 1

Flash Nonfiction

Max words: 500

Max pieces: 1

Poetry

Max lines: 50

Max pieces: 3

Statistics

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Track submission

79

Total submissions tracked

44 days

Average response time

0%

Average acceptance rate

4 days

Fastest response time

125 days

Slowest response time

*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 354 days, 577 days, 578 days, 826 days

How to submit

Process

We use Submittable

Cover letters

Include a cover letter with your submission.

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

Prose pieces should be typed double-spaced on one side. Poems should be individually typed either single- or double-spaced on one side of the page. Please make sure your name appears on all of the pages of your manuscript.

Rights for published work

Coming soon! First, third, none, all the rights!

Additional info

Five Points is named after an area of downtown Atlanta where cattle paths once converged at the site of an artesian well. As editors, the name offers us a metaphor for our goal of presenting a convergence of ideas and genres, photographs and text, north and south, east and west, young and old. Five Points is ranked in the top ten magazines in the nation by Every Writer’s Resource. Works first published in Five Points have been selected to appear in Best American Short Stories, Best American Poetry, O’Henry Prize Stories, Pushcart Best of the Small Presses, New Stories from the South, Utne Reader, Harper’s, and Poetry Daily. Previous contributors include Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, Frederick Busch, Edward Hirsch, Barbara Hamby, David Kirby, Philip Levine, W.S. Merwin, Joyce Carol Oates, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Christine Stewart, Martin Walls, Charles Wright and many others. Please make sure your name appears on all of the pages of your manuscript.

About the Magazine

Founded in 1996 | United States

Since the publication of its inaugural issue in 1996, Five Points has become one of this country’s best literary magazines. Published three times a year by the Georgia State University Department of English, each issue features poetry, fiction, essays, and interviews with the most compelling writers working today. Philip Levine calls Five Points “A refreshing combination of the old and the new. The best literary magazine I’ve read in ages!” Five Points is ranked in the top ten magazines in the nation by Every Writer’s Resource. Works first published in Five Points have been selected to appear in Best American Short Stories, Best American Poetry, O’Henry Prize Stories, Pushcart Best of the Small Presses, New Stories from the South, Utne Reader, Harper’s, and Poetry Daily. Previous contributors include Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, Frederick Busch, Edward Hirsch, Barbara Hamby, David Kirby, Philip Levine, W.S. Merwin, Joyce Carol Oates, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Christine Stewart, Martin Walls, Charles Wright and many others. Five Points is named after an area of downtown Atlanta where cattle paths once converged at the site of an artesian well. As editors, the name offers us a metaphor for our goal of presenting a convergence of ideas and genres, photographs and text, north and south, east and west, young and old.

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 :)

Megan Sexton

Editor-in-Chief

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