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"A literary magazine that celebrates the spiralic nature of life, love, healing, and everything else."
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Open for submissions

Introduction
Vibe

We're just chilling here

Response Time
1 month / 25 days
Average acceptance rate
7.69%

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

      No

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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

3 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Poetry

Max lines: 50

Max pieces: 3

prose poetry - under 200 words (or so), poetry - under 50 lines

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Nonfiction

PLEASE NOTE: while we remain open for fiction and CNF submissions, effective 10/2/2022 we are taking a temporary break from publishing prose

Flash rules

Max words: 1000

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Fiction

Max words: 1000

PLEASE NOTE: while we remain open for fiction and CNF submissions, effective 10/2/2022 we are taking a temporary break from publishing prose

Flash rules

No specific limitations

poetry genre icon

Poetry

Max lines: 50

Max pieces: 3

prose poetry - under 200 words (or so), poetry - under 50 lines

nonfiction genre icon

Nonfiction

PLEASE NOTE: while we remain open for fiction and CNF submissions, effective 10/2/2022 we are taking a temporary break from publishing prose

Flash rules

Max words: 1000

fiction genre icon

Fiction

Max words: 1000

PLEASE NOTE: while we remain open for fiction and CNF submissions, effective 10/2/2022 we are taking a temporary break from publishing prose

Flash rules

No specific limitations

Magazine

Founded in 2021 | 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 :)

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

Total tracked

14

Average acceptance rate

7.69%

Average response time

25 days

Average acceptance/rejection time

15/35 days

Fastest response time

2 days

Slowest response time

62 days

Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 138 days

Contributors on Chill Subs

Katy Goforth avatarnat raum avatarAlaina Scarano avatarEmily Benson avatarDebra Mihalic Staples avatar
6 pieces