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Response Time
Average acceptance rate
Need to know for submitting
Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox
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
Fiction
Max pieces: 1
Online: there are no limits on word count. If it’s a short story, send us one piece at a time—please wait to hear from us before sending another. Print: We accept prose submissions of at least 2,500 words.
Flash rules
Max pieces: 5
Online: If you’re working with the short short form, please send three to five selections in the same submission.
Nonfiction
Online: there are no limits on word count. If it’s a short story, send us one piece at a time—please wait to hear from us before sending another. Print: We accept prose submissions of at least 2,500 words.
Flash rules
Online: If you’re working with the short short form, please send three to five selections in the same submission.
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
Print: For poetry, we are looking for long poems (four pages or longer) or sequences of two or more linked poems.
Fiction
Max pieces: 1
Online: there are no limits on word count. If it’s a short story, send us one piece at a time—please wait to hear from us before sending another. Print: We accept prose submissions of at least 2,500 words.
Flash rules
Max pieces: 5
Online: If you’re working with the short short form, please send three to five selections in the same submission.
Nonfiction
Online: there are no limits on word count. If it’s a short story, send us one piece at a time—please wait to hear from us before sending another. Print: We accept prose submissions of at least 2,500 words.
Flash rules
Online: If you’re working with the short short form, please send three to five selections in the same submission.
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
Print: For poetry, we are looking for long poems (four pages or longer) or sequences of two or more linked poems.
Magazine
Founded in 1999 | 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 :)
Ryan Ridge
Editor-in-Chief
Ashley Farmer
Fiction Editor
Michael Barach
Co-Poetry Editor
Collier Nogues
Co-Poetry Editor
Christy Crutchfield
Nonfiction Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)
Total tracked
62
Average acceptance rate
6.9%
Average response time
122 days
Average acceptance/rejection time
-/122 days
Fastest response time
80 days
Slowest response time
204 days
