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"Protean produces cutting-edge print and digital media for the discerning leftist, sans advertisements."
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Introduction
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Response Time
/ 103 days
Average acceptance rate
16.67%

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

      $30 / $100+

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      Fee

      No

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      Expedited response

      No

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      Available in print

      Yes

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      Provide contributor copies

      No

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      Examples online

      Yes

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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

6 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Fiction

Max words: 3000

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Poetry

Max pieces: 5

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Review

Max words: 4500

film or book reviews

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Art

No specific limitations

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Nonfiction

Max words: 4500

criticism, news analysis, essays

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Interview

No specific limitations

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Fiction

Max words: 3000

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Poetry

Max pieces: 5

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Review

Max words: 4500

film or book reviews

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Art

No specific limitations

Magazine

Founded in 2019 | 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 :)

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Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

11

Average acceptance rate

16.67%

Average response time

103 days

Average acceptance/rejection time

90/103 days

Fastest response time

101 days

Slowest response time

105 days

Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 90 days, 144 days

Contributors on Chill Subs

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