Open for submissions
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MAYDAY presents new poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translations, cultural commentary, and visual art to an international community of readers. We publish artists that explore culture and history; politics regional and global; the past, present, and future.
Vibe
Send us your best but less intimidating
Response Time
Average acceptance rate
Types of Submissions Accepted
Fiction
Max words: 3000
Nonfiction
Max words: 5000
Poetry
Max pieces: 3
10 pages max
Interview
Max words: 1500
Review
Max words: 1500
Art
Max pieces: 5
Translations
No specific limitations
Fiction
Max words: 3000
Nonfiction
Max words: 5000
Poetry
Max pieces: 3
10 pages max
Interview
Max words: 1500
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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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 🏗️
Magazine
Founded in 2009 | 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 :)
David Bowen
Executive Director
Chase Erwin
Managing Editor
Emma Daley
Assistant Managing Editor
Nathan Winer
Assistant Managing Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)
Total tracked
16
Average acceptance rate
0% (so far)
Average response time
53 days
Average acceptance/rejection time
-/53 days
Fastest response time
34 days
Slowest response time
76 days
Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 168 days
