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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.
Vibe
Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok
Response Time
Average acceptance rate
Types of Submissions Accepted
Fiction
Max words: 8000
SHORT STORIES, NOVEL EXCERPTS
Flash rules
Max words: 1000
We’re happy to consider flash fiction–short stories under 1,000 words. You may include up to three pieces of flash in a single submission
Nonfiction
Max words: 8000
CNF: essays, memoir, etc.
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
not more than ten pages total
Comics
No specific limitations
Translations
No specific limitations
Fiction
Max words: 8000
SHORT STORIES, NOVEL EXCERPTS
Flash rules
Max words: 1000
We’re happy to consider flash fiction–short stories under 1,000 words. You may include up to three pieces of flash in a single submission
Nonfiction
Max words: 8000
CNF: essays, memoir, etc.
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
not more than ten pages total
Comics
No specific limitations
Need to know for submitting
Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox
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Details
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How to submit 🏗️
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Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️
04
Awards
05
Demographics & Eligibility
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Formatting requirements 🏗️
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Rights for published work 🏗️
Magazine
Founded in 1950 | 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 :)
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
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)
Total tracked
62
Average acceptance rate
0% (so far)
Average response time
47 days
Average acceptance/rejection time
-/47 days
Fastest response time
6 days
Slowest response time
101 days
Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 373 days
