Heimat Review
Literary Magazine
An online journal that seeks to be a home for your prose and poetry. It is a journal of treehouses and chipped coffee mugs; creaky floors and dusty corners. A place to tape your work to the kitchen fridge.
Highlights
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 2 days-6 weeks*/Editor reported data30 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: 18% */Editor reported data18.96666666666667%*Chill Subs tracker stats
PaysNo
FeeNo
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
From the editors
Please allow a six month period between publication elsewhere and the expected publication date of the Heimat Review issue you're submitting for (found on our submit page and elsewhere on the website).
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
From the editors
Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
From the editors
A link to your piece's page on our website, and please share your work and the current issue's link with friends and family!
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
From the editors
5
What's that?
Expedited submission: When the magazine offers a faster response time for an extra fee
Fiction (Prose)
Max words: 3000
Max pieces: 2
Sub Genres: All / surprise us
Nonfiction (Prose)
Max words: 3000
Max pieces: 2
Sub Genres: All / surprise us
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
Translation (Poetry and Prose)
Max pieces: 5
Art (Visual Art)
Max pieces: 5
Photography (Visual Art)
Max pieces: 5
How to submit
Processs
Email
Cover letter
Please include a cover letter and a short third-person writer's biography in the body of the email that will be published alongside your work if accepted. Please list the titles of your pieces in the cover letter, but it can be a short message. If applicable, include any necessary content warnings for your submissions.
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
Since we read all submissions blind, please remove any identifying information (such as your name or contact info) from your submitted documents. Submitted files should be formatted as PDF or Word/.doc(x).
Author's rights
Upon acceptance, you agree to grant Heimat Review first North American serial and electronic rights. Following publication, all rights return back to you.
Additional info
We recommend that you read through our past issues to get a sense of what we like and have recently published. Author Bios & Rights: Contributor biographies will be published along with your work, and we also would like to individually celebrate our contributors on Twitter, Threads, and Instagram if you have them! We will start highlighting a piece a day after the issue is published. We want you to be proud of the work that you've done and be sure that others can celebrate with you too. Upon acceptance, you agree to grant Heimat Review first North American serial and electronic rights. Following publication, all rights return back to you. We offer the following expedited submission and feedback options, and accept donations, through our ko-fi page: 🔜 48-hour response: $5 📝 Detailed feedback on one fiction/creative nonfiction piece: $15 📝 Detailed feedback on poetry: $10 per poem
Tracker statistics
97
Total submissions tracked
30 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
2 days
Fastest response time
104 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 237 days, 143 days, 132 days
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