Vibe
Very fancy very impressive very not fast
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
$50+
Fee
$3
Expedited response
No
Available in print
Yes
Provide contributor copies
yes, +subscription
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 words: 20000
Max pieces: 1
short stories, short shorts, novellas, novel excerpts
Flash rules
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 3
literary
experimental
Nonfiction
Max words: 20000
Max pieces: 1
We publish a broad range of nonfiction, including interpretive and personal essays, critical reassessments, cultural criticism (art, film, etc.), travel writing, environmental writing, and works in translation.
Poetry
Max pieces: 6
Play
Max words: 5000
Up to 5,000 words.
Translations
No specific limitations
Magazine
Founded in 1978 | 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 :)
Carolyn Kuebler
Editor-in-Chief
Leslie Sainz
Managing Editor
Jennifer Chang
Poetry Editor
Ernest McLeod
Fiction Editor
Emily Mitchell
Fiction Editor
J. M. Tyree
Nonfiction and Drama Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)
Total tracked
139
Average acceptance rate
1.9%
Average response time
109 days
Average acceptance/rejection time
-/109 days
Fastest response time
36 days
Slowest response time
203 days