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"Gray's Sporting Journal is the original chronicle of fine sporting literature, art, photography, and travel."
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Open for submissions

Introduction
Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time
6-7 months
Average acceptance rate
10%

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

      $50-1250

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      Fee

      No

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      Expedited response

      No

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      Available in print

      Yes

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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

4 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Fiction

Features may be no shorter than 1,500 words. We reject many manuscripts that are well written but just too long.

Flash rules

Max words: 1500

Yarns are just that—campfire tales, should run from 750 to 1,500 words.

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Poetry

We prefer poems shorter than 1,000 words.

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Nonfiction

Expeditions articles run between 2,500 and 3,000 words. Features may be no shorter than 1,500 words.

Flash rules

Max words: 1500

Yarns are just that—campfire tales, should run from 750 to 1,500 words.

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Photography

Inside-front Covers or Photographic Essays. We are looking for essays of stunning quality, focusing on angling and hunting.

fiction genre icon

Fiction

Features may be no shorter than 1,500 words. We reject many manuscripts that are well written but just too long.

Flash rules

Max words: 1500

Yarns are just that—campfire tales, should run from 750 to 1,500 words.

poetry genre icon

Poetry

We prefer poems shorter than 1,000 words.

nonfiction genre icon

Nonfiction

Expeditions articles run between 2,500 and 3,000 words. Features may be no shorter than 1,500 words.

Flash rules

Max words: 1500

Yarns are just that—campfire tales, should run from 750 to 1,500 words.

photography genre icon

Photography

Inside-front Covers or Photographic Essays. We are looking for essays of stunning quality, focusing on angling and hunting.

Magazine

Founded in 1975 | 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 :)

Mike Floyd
Editor-in-Chief
Wayne Knight
art director
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