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"National publication, three issues annually, publishing fiction, poetry, nonfiction, interviews translation, photography, and original art works."
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Open for submissions

Introduction
Vibe

Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok

Response Time
6 months / 48 days
Average acceptance rate
7.69%

Need to know for submitting

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

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      Simultaneous submissions

      Yes

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      Previously published

      No

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      Payment

      Some

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      Fee

      $3

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      Expedited response

      No

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      Available in print

      Yes

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      Provide contributor copies

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      Examples online

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      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 🏗️

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Types of Submissions Accepted

9 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Translations

You can submit 5-6 poems at one time. For prose works, our ideal length is 5 pages. Please include a copy of the original text alongside your translation, as well as a statement demonstrating that the English translation rights are available.

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Art

Max pieces: 5

We are looking for formally inventive black-and-white illustrative portraits. Think of this as a hand-drawn, or hand-painted sketch of someone in black and white; label it if you feel like a word or two adds to the beauty of your drawing; we’d like to include as many instances of visual self-expression along with written forms of literature as well. This is not a photographic selfie; think Morisot, Manet, Picasso, Krasner, DeKooning; draw someone who inspires you.

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Photography

Max pieces: 5

Additionally we’d love to see your black and white photography that is: experimental in technique, environmental in spirit, but also anything that raises a gigantic middle finger to the global capitalist industrial military complex and says ENOUGH.

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Hybrid

Max pieces: 5

We are interested in illustration, collage, comics, and graphic narratives, or any format that expresses an authentic gesture of human emotion and experience as you see it. Do you have an idea for a 2D visual installation? Do you have a reverse ekphrastic piece? Do you have surreal doodles you furiously sketched upon waking from a terrifying dream sequence? Do you have Xerox art? Riso art? We’re interested.

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Poetry

Max pieces: 5

3-5 poems. We seek poetry that is singular in both its vision and voice, regardless of form, style, or content.

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Fiction

Max words: 50000

Fiction, Novellas

Flash rules

Max words: 1000

Flash fiction

all

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Comics

Max pieces: 5

We are open to graphic narratives, comics, or other works that blur the line between illustration and narrative. Think Persepolis, Habibi, Maus. Send it over!

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Review

Max words: 1000

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Nonfiction

We welcome submissions of literary criticism, book reviews of current or forthcoming titles, personal essays, and creative non-fiction. For essays and criticism, try to stay within 5,000 words if possible. Book reviews can usually succeed within 1,000 words or less. And for creative non-fiction, allow your story to dictate the length, while keeping in mind that the shorter the work the more space we’ll have for it.

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Translations

You can submit 5-6 poems at one time. For prose works, our ideal length is 5 pages. Please include a copy of the original text alongside your translation, as well as a statement demonstrating that the English translation rights are available.

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Art

Max pieces: 5

We are looking for formally inventive black-and-white illustrative portraits. Think of this as a hand-drawn, or hand-painted sketch of someone in black and white; label it if you feel like a word or two adds to the beauty of your drawing; we’d like to include as many instances of visual self-expression along with written forms of literature as well. This is not a photographic selfie; think Morisot, Manet, Picasso, Krasner, DeKooning; draw someone who inspires you.

photography genre icon

Photography

Max pieces: 5

Additionally we’d love to see your black and white photography that is: experimental in technique, environmental in spirit, but also anything that raises a gigantic middle finger to the global capitalist industrial military complex and says ENOUGH.

hybrid genre icon

Hybrid

Max pieces: 5

We are interested in illustration, collage, comics, and graphic narratives, or any format that expresses an authentic gesture of human emotion and experience as you see it. Do you have an idea for a 2D visual installation? Do you have a reverse ekphrastic piece? Do you have surreal doodles you furiously sketched upon waking from a terrifying dream sequence? Do you have Xerox art? Riso art? We’re interested.

Magazine

Founded in 1957 | 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 :)

S. Tremaine Nelson
Editor-in-Chief
Brian Michael Murphy
Managing Editor & Nonfiction Editor
Samantha DeWys
Production & Design Director
Clare Maloney
Executive Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

23

Average acceptance rate

7.69%

Average response time

48 days

Average acceptance/rejection time

1/56 days

Fastest response time

1 days

Slowest response time

144 days

Contributors on Chill Subs

Gabriela Denise Frank avatarSwati Sudarsan avatar
3 pieces