Litmosphere: Journal of Charlotte Lit
Literary Magazine
Litmosphere publishes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction in two online issues per year (March and September).
Highlights
This magazine may have some eligibility requirements
Please double-check before submitting.
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 30 days or faster*Editor reported data
- Acceptance rate: 12% *Editor reported data
- Work acquired through solicitation: 1%
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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
Poetry and prose must be previously unpublished. Art submissions can be previously published.
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
From the editors
Pushcart Prize
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
What's that?
Expedited submission: When the magazine offers a faster response time for an extra fee
Fiction - 5000 words max
Max words: 5000
Max pieces: 1
Sub Genres: Literary
Payment: $ 100
Fiction - 500 words max
Max words: 500
Max pieces: 4
Sub Genres: Literary
Payment: $ 50 per piece
Nonfiction - 5000 words max
Max words: 5000
Max pieces: 1
Sub Genres: , , ,
Payment: $ 100
Nonfiction - 500 words max
Max words: 500
Max pieces: 4
Sub Genres: , , ,
Payment: $ 50 per piece
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
Payment: $ 50 per piece
Art
Max pieces: 10
Payment: $ 250
How to submit
Processs
Submittable
Cover letter
In our "Contributor's Note" field, please include a short note (up to 150 words) that helps editors and readers get to know you. Rather than listing prior publications, tell us something about yourself—where you’re from, how you identify, what excites and interests you––and about the impulse behind the piece(s) in your submission. If you have them, please also include your website and active social media handles.
Eligibility
18+
Formatting
Please upload a single file with each piece on a new page, in .doc, .docx, or .rtf format, using Times New Roman or another readable font. Double-spacing preferred. For Poetry (which allows up to five pieces) and Flash (which allows up to four), begin each piece on a new page. Do not include name or other contact information in your uploaded file so we can read without bias.
Author's rights
For all writing: first electronic rights and non-exclusive archival rights; copyright remains with the author. For art: non-exclusive online and archival use; copyright remains with the artist.
Additional info
Our Vision It seems the literary journal world has become an immense and sometimes less than friendly landscape for writers seeking to find homes for their work. We’ve envisioned Litmosphere as an oasis in the desert of long response times and impersonal rejection notes. As writers ourselves, we know submitters are putting real skin (thick or thin) into the game and deserve our full attention and respect. We strive to make meaningful connections with potential contributors, regardless of our ability to include their work in a particular issue. That desire to connect carries over to a preference for readers to more deeply experience authors’ voices by publishing together multiple pieces from the same writers. We are interested in work by all writers, and are particularly eager to receive submissions from those historically underrepresented in publishing. Finally, we’re committed to crafting a nourishing, visually appealing, easy-to-navigate journal. Our Aesthetic Litmosphere is for lovers of image and metaphor, writers and readers as curious about inner experience as driving narrative. It’s a place readers can easily dip in, read a piece or two, but our goal is to curate content and design a reading experience that makes you want to linger, luxuriate in rich language, reconsider the world and your place in it.
Tracker statistics
6
Total submissions tracked
8 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
4 days
Fastest response time
12 days
Slowest response time
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