Pithead Chapel
Literary Magazine
We’re looking for engaging art, fiction, nonfiction, and prose poetry. Most of all, we want your work to make us feel something. We want to reach the last word and immediately crave more. We want your work to leave a brilliant bruise.
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Highlights
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 2 months*/Editor reported data8 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: / 3.95%*Chill Subs tracker stats
PaysNo
FeeNo
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, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
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
Nonfiction - 4000 words max
Max words: 4000
Max pieces: 1
Poetry
Max pieces: 3
Art
Photography
How to submit
Processs
Submittable
Cover letter
This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
Name, email address, and phone number appears on the first page of the story or prose poem. Work is double spaced and has a 12-point font (preferably Times New Roman). Document is saved as a rtf, .doc, or .docx file (we will not accept any other file types). Work has page numbers (this doesn’t apply to prose poem submissions).
Author's rights
If your work is accepted by Pithead Chapel, you’re granting us First Serial Rights, along with nonexclusive Electronic Archival Rights, to showcase your work indefinitely on our site. At the time of publication, all rights revert back to the author. If you republish the work elsewhere, all we ask is that you please credit us as the first publisher.
Additional info
Only send one submission at a time.
Tracker statistics
367
Total submissions tracked
8 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
0 days
Fastest response time
430 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 877 days, 1918 days, 1757 days, 1660 days, 1482 days, 1318 days, 1666 days, 955 days
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About
Pithead Chapel is an independent and volunteer-run literary journal and small press founded in 2012 in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. We publish art, fiction, nonfiction, and prose poetry online every month by emerging and established artists.
Founded
2012
Country
US
Masthead
Kim Magowan
Editor-in-Chief
Brittany Terwilliger
Managing Editor
Katherine Gehan
Nonfiction Editor
Simeon Berry
Prose Poetry Editor