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"a premium Australian literary magazine of fiction, poetry, nonfiction and arts features"
"a premium Australian literary magazine of fiction, poetry, nonfiction and arts features"
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Send us your best but less intimidating
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Acceptance Rate
Payment
Yes
Fee
No
Simultaneous submissions
Yes
Previously published
No
Expedited response
No
Available in print
Yes
Provides contributor copies
No
Examples online
Yes
Active on social media
Yes
Accepted genres
4 genres
Fiction
Max words: 5000
we tend not to publish flash fiction or microfiction in print very often
Nonfiction
Max words: 5000
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
Art
No specific limitations
Fiction
Max words: 5000
we tend not to publish flash fiction or microfiction in print very often
Nonfiction
Max words: 5000
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
Art
No specific limitations
Statistics
We're able to provide them because you use our tracker!
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Total submissions tracked
49 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
48 days
Fastest response time
49 days
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How to submit
Process
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Cover letters
Coming soon! Advice from editors on what your cover letter and bio should look like!
Eligibility
Creators from a specific location / ethnic group
Formatting
Coming soon! All the Times New Romans and double spaces!
Rights for published work
Coming soon! First, third, none, all the rights!
Additional info
frequency varies between 2 and 4 issues per year, depending on funding payment: poetry - $125 per poem payment: fiction and nonfiction - 20 cents per word, with a minimum of $350 and a maximum of $750 Island welcomes submissions from Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific and Australians living abroad if your work is published in our print version, and you not already a subscriber, your total payment will be less the cost of a 4-issue subscription We have also run the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize since 1996 and in 2021 we launched the Island Nonfiction Prize
About the Magazine
Founded in 1979 | Australia
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 :)
Vern Field
Editor-in-Chief
Anna Spargo-Ryan
Editor
Jane Rawson
Editor
Kate Middleton
Editor
Judith Abell
Editor
Examples
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