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Guidelines

"A literary biannual featuring poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews by authors from around the world."

"A literary biannual featuring poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews by authors from around the world."

Vibe

Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok

Response Time

6 months / 116 days

Acceptance Rate

9.52%

  • Payment

    No

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    No

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    Yes

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

4 genres

Fiction

While there are no length requirements, our journal has limited space, and manuscripts over 12,000 words will especially need to impress.

Nonfiction

Max words: 6000

Poetry

Min pieces: 3

Max pieces: 5

3-5 poems

Review

Max words: 1200

Fiction

While there are no length requirements, our journal has limited space, and manuscripts over 12,000 words will especially need to impress.

Nonfiction

Max words: 6000

Poetry

Min pieces: 3

Max pieces: 5

3-5 poems

Review

Max words: 1200

Statistics

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Track submission

46

Total submissions tracked

116 days

Average response time

9.52%

Average acceptance rate

44 days

Fastest response time

272 days

Slowest response time

How to submit

Process

We use our own submissions manager at https://www.pleiadessubmissions.com/

Cover letters

Fill in all of your contact information. If you are submitting work for someone else, fill in your contact info and fill in the name of the person your are submitting for in the “writer name” field.

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

Fill in the title(s) of the work(s) you are submitting. If you are submitting multiple works, separate titles with commas.

Rights for published work

This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.

Additional info

Available in print

About the Magazine

Founded in 1981 | United States

Past contributors include winners of the Nobel, Ruth Lilly, Pulitzer, Bollingen, Prix de la Liberté, and Neustadt Prizes, recipients of Guggenheim, Whiting, National Book Critics Circle, and National Book Awards, and many writers seeing their work in print for the first time. The Pleiades Book Review is an online supplement to the magazine that features both long-form reviews and shorter reviews of books released primarily by independent publishers. Each year, Pleiades—in partnership with Copper Nickel and Gulf Coast—distributes the featured book in the Unsung Masters Series. Each volume focuses on an important writer whose work has been unjustly neglected and features both a generous sample of creative work and numerous essays. Unsung Masters Series volumes are distributed free to subscribers with the Spring issue of Pleiades and are also available through Small Press Distribution.

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 :)

Jenny Molberg

Co-Editor, Poetry Editor

Caitlin Cowan

Poetry Editor

Jennifer Maritza McCauley

Fiction Editor

Clinton Crockett Peters

Nonfiction Editor

Taneum Bambrick

Reviews Editor

Dorothy Chan

Reviews Editor

Examples

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