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"Our goal is to provide a platform for the exhibition and distribution of work by new, emerging, and established writers and artists in the online literary community."
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Introduction

Our goal is to provide a platform for the exhibition and distribution of work by new, emerging, and established writers and artists in the online literary community.

Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time
1-3 months / 63 days
Average acceptance rate
11.54%

Types of Submissions Accepted

11 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Fiction

Max words: 3000

Max pieces: 3

No more than 3,000 words per submission (for the entire document).

Flash rules

No specific limitations

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Nonfiction

Max words: 3000

Max pieces: 3

No more than 3,000 words per submission (for the entire document).

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Poetry

Max pieces: 3

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Art

Max pieces: 3

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Review

Max words: 1500

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Play

No specific limitations

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Anything

Ghost City Review welcomes submissions of poems, short stories, flash fiction, personal essays, adventure narratives, journal entries, short plays, monologues, translations, photographs, oil paintings, watercolors, sculptures, dioramas…. pretty much anything you can think of.

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Translations

No specific limitations

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Photography

No specific limitations

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Comics

No specific limitations

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Hybrid

No specific limitations

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Fiction

Max words: 3000

Max pieces: 3

No more than 3,000 words per submission (for the entire document).

Flash rules

No specific limitations

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Nonfiction

Max words: 3000

Max pieces: 3

No more than 3,000 words per submission (for the entire document).

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Poetry

Max pieces: 3

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Art

Max pieces: 3

Need to know for submitting

Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox

  • 01

    Details

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  • 02

    How to submit 🏗️

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  • 03

    Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️

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  • 04

    Awards

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  • 05

    Demographics & Eligibility

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  • 06

    Formatting requirements 🏗️

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  • 07

    Rights for published work 🏗️

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Magazine

Founded in 2016 | 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 :)

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

Total tracked

39

Average acceptance rate

11.54%

Average response time

63 days

Average acceptance/rejection time

74/61 days

Fastest response time

0 days

Slowest response time

316 days

Contributors on Chill Subs

m wilder avatarRebecca Macijeski avatarkristingarth avatar
3 pieces