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    Literary Magazine

    Qwerty

    www.qwertyunb.com

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    Qwerty publishes new poetry, fiction, and art, and is staffed by graduate students in UNB's creative writing program.

    Highlights

    • Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
    • Response time:
      360 days after submission*
      Editor reported data
       / 
      182 days*
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    • Acceptance rate:
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      Editor reported data
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      17.78%*
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    Publication

    • 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

    • Active on social media

    • Available in print

    • Provides contributor copies

    • Has examples online

    How to submit

    • Processs

      Submittable

    • Cover letter

      In your cover letter, please include your name and full contact information, and also indicate whether your submission has been simultaneously submitted elsewhere.

    • Eligibility

      No specific eligibility requirements

    • Formatting

      Prose: Your submission must be double-spaced, in 12-point font and with 1-inch margins on all the pages. Poetry: You may submit up to 6 pages of poetry, single-spaced, but please include all the pages in a single document with 1-inch margins on all sides.

    • Author's rights

      Authors retain full copyright for works published in Qwerty.

    • Additional info

      We welcome and encourage submissions from Indigenous writers and artists, writers and artists of colour, writers and artists with disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ writers and artists, and writers and artists from other intersectional and under-represented communities. If you are comfortable identifying yourself as one or more of the above, please feel free to mention this in your cover letter. Please wait until you have received a reply to your first submission before submitting again, and please submit to only one genre at a time. Qwerty is a graduate student-run magazine at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, and work submitted between April and September may not be read and responded-to immediately.

    Tracker statistics

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    Total submissions tracked

    182 days

    Average response time

    17.78%

    Average acceptance rate

    74 days

    Fastest response time

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    The Submissions Grinder Statistics

    12.49%

    12-month average acceptance rate

    129 days

    12-month average response time

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    About

    Our number one criterion, above all else, is mastery of craft. Though Qwerty has primarily published literary fiction and fine art, we have no qualms with publishing genre fiction that subverts convention, experimental work that inverts tradition in pursuit of innovative storytelling, or images that...

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    Founded

    1996

    Country

    CA

    Masthead

      Editor Shauna Deathe avatar

      Shauna Deathe

      Editor-in-Chief

      Editor Jamie Evan Kitts avatar

      Jamie Evan Kitts

      Managing Editor

      Editor Britt MacKenzie-Dale avatar

      Britt MacKenzie-Dale

      Prose Editor

      Editor Evan Jurmain​ avatar

      Evan Jurmain​

      Art Editor