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Response Time
Average acceptance rate
Need to know for submitting
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Simultaneous submissions
Yes
Previously published
No
Payment
No
Fee
No
Expedited response
No
Available in print
Yes
Provide contributor copies
No
Examples online
Yes
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 🏗️
Types of Submissions Accepted
Nonfiction
Max words: 5500
Max pieces: 1
Creative nonfiction. We prefer narrative nonfiction from diverse voices, and welcome hybrid and experimental forms.
Flash rules
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 3
Flash essays.
Fiction
Max words: 4500
Max pieces: 1
We prefer scene-driven stories that are strange, off-kilter, and sometimes ruthless.
Flash rules
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 3
all
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
We prefer poems with a strong lyric voice and sense of urgency.
Magazine
Founded in 2000 | 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 :)
Jamey McDermo
Editor-in-Chief
Hannah Carr-Murphy
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Cole Depuy
Editor
Suzanne Richardson
Editor
Samia Ahmed
Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)
Total tracked
15
Average acceptance rate
16.67%
Average response time
52 days
Average acceptance/rejection time
104/39 days
Fastest response time
4 days
Slowest response time
104 days
Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 943 days