Open for submissions
Vibe
Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok
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
Some
Fee
$3
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Fiction
Max words: 50000
Fiction, Novellas
Flash rules
Max words: 1000
Flash fiction
all
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!
Review
Max words: 1000
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.
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.
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
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
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
