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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
Acceptance Rate
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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79
Total submissions tracked
44 days
Average response time
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
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Megan Sexton
Editor-in-Chief
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