phoebe

Literary Magazine

Fiction

Flash Fiction

Nonfiction

Flash Nonfiction

Poetry

Art

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phoebe prides itself on supporting up-and-coming writers, whose style, form, voice, and subject matter demonstrate a vigorous appeal to the senses, intellect, and emotions of our readers.

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Highlights

Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
Response time:
Within 60 days**
Editor reported data
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45 days*
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Acceptance rate: /
0.84%*
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Pays$30

Find more details in the Genres section

Fee$3

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Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts 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, Best of the Net
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
From the editors
yes
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
What's that?
Expedited submission: When the magazine offers a faster response time for an extra fee

Fiction - 4000 words max

Max words: 4000

Max pieces: 1

Sub Genres: Literary, Experimental, Humor, LGBTQ+ Stories, Speculative

Submission fee: $ 3

Payment: $ 30

work over 4,000 words will need to be extraordinary. we are happy to accept up to three pieces of less than 1,000 words each

Fiction - 1000 words max

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 3

Sub Genres: Literary, Experimental, Humor, LGBTQ+ Stories, Speculative

Submission fee: $ 3

Payment: $ 30

The phoebe fiction team is looking for short stories, flash fiction, and micro fiction that pack an emotional or intellectual punch and deliver an honest, affecting, and human reading experience. We appreciate weirdness and therefore prefer writing that takes risks (such as in form, content, narration, etc.) over that which plays it safe but lacks urgency or soul. While we don’t have a strict word count, pieces upwards of 4,000 words or 13 standard manuscript pages must justify their length to merit inclusion. We look forward to reading your work! -Bareerah Ghani and Katy Mullins, Fiction Editor and Assistant Editor

Nonfiction - 4000 words max

Max words: 4000

Max pieces: 1

Submission fee: $ 3

Payment: $ 30

work over 4,000 words will need to be extraordinary. we are happy to accept up to three pieces of less than 1,000 words each

Nonfiction - 1000 words max

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 3

Submission fee: $ 3

Payment: $ 30

We are excited by nonfiction that faces down risk, embraces complexity, and tests the bounds of form, craft and language. We look for personal, lyric, and/or journalistic essays (and everything in between!) that engage in vibrant exploration and inquiry. Above all, we want nonfiction that wrestles with ideas in order to reveal larger truths about the self and the world through unique lenses, representing diverse identities and voices with intellectual and emotional honesty. Submitted work should be stand-alone. On our pages, we aim for a mixture of brevity and breadth, and we warmly welcome submissions from both emerging and experienced writers. —Emilie Knudsen and Ashlen Renner, Nonfiction Editor and Assistant Editor

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

Submission fee: $ 3

Payment: $ 30

As poets, we want to see poems that are aware of themselves and their material(s). We want to see poems interacting with their status as language on a page. Specifically, we like to read poems with an awareness of self and place, how selfhood and being placed both reinforce each other and prepare the speaker for externality, politically and otherwise, with experience, image, and getting lost in the process of poetry itself as starting points and endpoints. As such, we are currently encouraging more queer and trans poetics as a methodology for dealing with these issues, not as a stopgap but as a throughline. -Susan Muth and Tori Reynolds, Poetry Editor and Assistant Editor

Art

Max pieces: 5

Submission fee: $ 3

Payment: $ 30

Above all, we seek to publish quality art from artists at various stages of their careers, with an eye towards artwork that illustrates a narrative or conveys an emotion, as we believe in the importance of both visual and textual storytelling. See here for images we've featured in our journal.

How to submit

Processs
Submittable
Cover letter
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Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
Writers, we prefer that you submit your work as a Word Document or another similar processing system, rather than as a PDF. Visual Artists may use PDFs to submit multiple works of art, but should be prepared with a high-resolution version of their files upon their work's acceptance to the journal.
Author's rights
Phoebe asks for: 1) First American rights for print publication of the Work in a future issue of Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art 2) Indefinite non-exclusive rights for electronic publication of the Work at www.phoebejournal.com, as well as through Phoebe’s social media websites and newsletters 3) Possible inclusion of the Work in a future anthology published by Phoebe Press All other rights remain the author’s. By signing a contract with us, you also affirm: 1) You are the original creator of the work. 2) You maintain the power and authority to grant the aforementioned publishing rights to Phoebe Press. 3) The work has not been previously published elsewhere and does not infringe upon any copyright, trademark, or any other intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights of any third party.
Additional info
We insist on openness, which means we welcome both experimental and conventional prose and poetry, and we insist on being entertained. We produce a print issue in fall/winter and an online issue in spring/summer. Our Spring Contest offers $500 to winners in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction, and $100 to runners-up in all three genres. We welcome multiple submissions, but each should follow the guidelines above.

Tracker statistics

Total submissions tracked

45 days

Average response time

0.84%

Average acceptance rate

15 days

Fastest response time

97 days

Slowest response time

*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 264 days, 209 days, 154 days

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12-month average acceptance rate

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Issue 54.1

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Deadline: Oct 15, 2024

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phoebe prides itself on supporting up-and-coming writers, whose style, form, voice, and subject matter demonstrate a vigorous appeal to the senses, intellect, and emotions of our readers. We choose our writers because we believe their work succeeds at its goals, regardless of whether those goals are...

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1971

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Taylor Schaefer

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Jacob Sharp

Managing Editor