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"Our annual journal issues are limited edition, gorgeously-crafted, keepsake collections of art, lyrics, and writing featuring the work of 20 contributors in celebration of a specific musical theme."
Introduction
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Response Time
40 days
Average acceptance rate
20%

Need to know for submitting

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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

      Yes

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      Provide contributor copies

      No

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      Examples online

      No

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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

6 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Fiction

Max words: 3000

Max pieces: 3

all

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Poetry

Max pieces: 3

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Art

Max pieces: 15

Send a cover letter (including a biographical note, an artist statement, and a brief description of what music means to you) and five to ten examples of previous art, in any medium.

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Nonfiction

Creative nonfiction

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Translations

No specific limitations

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Interview

No specific limitations

fiction genre icon

Fiction

Max words: 3000

Max pieces: 3

all

poetry genre icon

Poetry

Max pieces: 3

art genre icon

Art

Max pieces: 15

Send a cover letter (including a biographical note, an artist statement, and a brief description of what music means to you) and five to ten examples of previous art, in any medium.

nonfiction genre icon

Nonfiction

Creative nonfiction

Magazine

Founded in 2015 | 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 :)

Topaz Winters
Editor-in-Chief
Danie Shokoohi
Managing Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

5

Average acceptance rate

20%

Average response time

40 days

Average acceptance/rejection time

237/40 days

Fastest response time

23 days

Slowest response time

56 days

Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 237 days