Logo of JAKE literary magazine
"JAKE is the king of bad taste, of broken forms, and broken rules. JAKE wants all of the shade of the bigger, badder mags, and he wants your funniest, strangest, or boldest words. JAKE is here to play without rules."
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Introduction

JAKE is the king of bad taste, of broken forms, and broken rules. JAKE wants all of the shade of the bigger, badder mags, and he wants your funniest, strangest, or boldest words. JAKE is here to play without rules.

Vibe

Send us your fucking worst

Response Time
<1 month / 6 days
Average acceptance rate
59.57%

Types of Submissions Accepted

4 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Fiction

Max words: 7000

Max pieces: 1

JAKE is looking for short stories of a literary or experimental stripe, regardless of the genre, between 2000-7000 words. JAKE’s sweet spot is right in the middle at 3500, but as you can tell, he isn’t that picky with breaking the mold.

Flash rules

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 3

Up to three little stories of 1000 words or under.

all

literary

experimental

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Poetry

Max pieces: 3

JAKE doesn’t know shit about poetry, but will take submissions of up to three poems totally roughly 10 pages or less. Poetry longer than that scares him, since he doesn’t actually know how to read. *One quick note about the poetry: long lines are o.k., since JAKE is working on a way to wrap lines like in a collection. Should be very cool when it's working. But, if your lines are long and require some particular spacing... well... the site is coded in HTML, if you catch JAKE's drift.

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Anything

No specific limitations

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Nonfiction

Max pieces: 1

JAKE can appreciate a good real life story every once in a while. Send him between 2000-7000 words (but preferably around 3500), just like for fiction, and he’ll see what he can do.

Flash rules

Max pieces: 2

Up to three little stories of 1000 words or under.

fiction genre icon

Fiction

Max words: 7000

Max pieces: 1

JAKE is looking for short stories of a literary or experimental stripe, regardless of the genre, between 2000-7000 words. JAKE’s sweet spot is right in the middle at 3500, but as you can tell, he isn’t that picky with breaking the mold.

Flash rules

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 3

Up to three little stories of 1000 words or under.

all

literary

experimental

poetry genre icon

Poetry

Max pieces: 3

JAKE doesn’t know shit about poetry, but will take submissions of up to three poems totally roughly 10 pages or less. Poetry longer than that scares him, since he doesn’t actually know how to read. *One quick note about the poetry: long lines are o.k., since JAKE is working on a way to wrap lines like in a collection. Should be very cool when it's working. But, if your lines are long and require some particular spacing... well... the site is coded in HTML, if you catch JAKE's drift.

anything genre icon

Anything

No specific limitations

nonfiction genre icon

Nonfiction

Max pieces: 1

JAKE can appreciate a good real life story every once in a while. Send him between 2000-7000 words (but preferably around 3500), just like for fiction, and he’ll see what he can do.

Flash rules

Max pieces: 2

Up to three little stories of 1000 words or under.

Need to know for submitting

Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox

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    Details

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    How to submit 🏗️

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  • 03

    Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️

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  • 04

    Awards

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  • 05

    Demographics & Eligibility

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  • 06

    Formatting requirements 🏗️

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    Rights for published work 🏗️

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Magazine

Founded in 2022 | 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 :)

Ben Shahon
Inbal Gilboa
Editor
C.M. Green
Editor
Laurel Reynolds
Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

54

Average acceptance rate

59.57%

Average response time

6 days

Average acceptance/rejection time

6/7 days

Fastest response time

0 days

Slowest response time

29 days

Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 34 days, 39 days, 40 days, 129 days, 215 days

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