Recommended Reading is your ultimate source for the best in contemporary fiction, including short stories and novel excerpts from today’s most dynamic voices.
Highlights
- Vibe:Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok
- Response time: 240 days after submission*/Editor reported data98 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: ?*/Editor reported data3.45%*Chill Subs tracker stats
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
From the editors
Best Of The Net, Pushcart
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
How to submit
Process
Submittable
Cover letter
No cover letter advice
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
Please submit a single document in .doc, .docx, or PDF.
Author's rights
Upon acceptance, we can offer authors $300 for publishing rights, with 90-day exclusivity.
Additional info
Members of Electric Literature can submit year round. During open submission periods, one piece may be submitted per writer. Work published by Electric Literature and our literary magazines has been recognized by Best American Short Stories, Essays, Poetry, and Comics, the Pushcart Prize, Best Canadian Short Stories, The Best of the Small Presses, and the O. Henry Prize.
Tracker statistics
47
Total submissions tracked
98 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
17 days
Fastest response time
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About
Electric Literature is a nonprofit digital publisher with the mission to make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. We are committed to publishing work that is intelligent and unpretentious, elevating new voices, and examining how literature and storytelling can help illuminate social j...
Read moreFounded
2009
Country
US
Masthead
Halimah Marcus
Editor-in-Chief
Wynter Miller
Managing Editor
Preety Sidhu
Associate Editor