Shenandoah
Literary Magazine
Shenandoah was founded in 1950 by a group of Washington and Lee University faculty members and undergraduates, Tom Wolfe among them. We’re excited to consider short stories, essays, excerpts of novels in progress, poems, comics, and translations of all the above.
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Highlights
- Vibe:Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok
- Response time: 6 months*/Editor reported data71 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: / 1.64%*Chill Subs tracker stats
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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
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 - 8000 words max
Max words: 8000
Sub Genres: Literary
Payment: $100-500
Fiction - 1000 words max
Max words: 1000
Sub Genres: Literary
Payment: $100-500
Nonfiction - 8000 words max
Max words: 8000
Payment: $100-500
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
Payment: $ 100 per piece
Translation
Payment: $100-500
No specific limitations
Comics
Payment: $ 50 per page
No specific limitations
How to submit
Processs
Submittable
Cover letter
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Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
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Author's rights
We buy first North American Serial Rights, and rights to the work revert to the author after publication. As a courtesy, we ask writers to note Shenandoah as the first place of publication when the work is anthologized, reprinted, or otherwise made public through another format.
Additional info
We pay our contributors at the rate of $100 per poem, $100 per 1000 words of prose up to $500, and $50 per page of comics up to $500.
Tracker statistics
220
Total submissions tracked
71 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
6 days
Fastest response time
373 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 904 days, 664 days
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About
Shenandoah was founded in 1950 by a group of Washington and Lee University faculty members and undergraduates, Tom Wolfe among them. For a brief time it was primarily an undergraduate magazine, but under the leadership of student editor Tom Carter, Shenandoah became a quarterly, publishing a cast of...
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1950
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Masthead
Beth Staples
Editor-in-Chief
Brenna Womer
Nonfiction Editor
DW McKinney
Nonfiction Editor
Lesley Wheeler
Poetry Editor
Chris Gavaler
Comics Editor
Seth Michelson
Translations Editor
Frederica Morgan Davis
Fiction Editor
Clover Archer
Art Editor
Charity Corman
Managing Editor