We love stories and poetry and art because they’re our insides turned out for everyone to see: the darkness and the confetti in equal measure. We think every great enterprise is driven by the values it upholds, not just the ones it believes in. We try our dang hardest to not just talk about it, but to ✨be✨ about it. We’re really into: 🗣 voice-driven work 🤝 inclusion and minimizing harm 🙌🏽 elevating new and diverse voices 👥 supporting the literary community ❤️ vulnerability 🎨 gifs 💪🏿 creating spaces in which to be brave - and silly 😜 - and honest 👏🏼 - and weird 👽
Vibe
Send us your best but less intimidating
Response Time
Average acceptance rate
Need to know for submitting
Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox
Simultaneous submissions
Yes
Previously published
No
Payment
Yes
Fee
$0-3
Expedited response
Yes
Available in print
Yes
Provide contributor copies
2
Examples online
Yes
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 🏗️
Types of Submissions Accepted
Fiction
Max words: 3000
literary
experimental
Nonfiction
Max words: 3000
Send us your best unpublished literary, mainstream, or experimental writing between 1,000 and 3,000 words. Profanity, sex and such are permitted but we will not publish anything tickling the boundaries of pornography. As much as we like sci-fi, romance, mystery and adventure, please, no genre fiction.
Flash rules
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 1
Please read at least one piece from our archives to help discern if we're right for you Please double your line spacing and use a serif font. We favor interesting, literary narratives with a modern, pop culture appeal. Voice-driven prose gets us fired up.
Poetry
Max pieces: 1
Interview
Max words: 2000
Review
Max words: 1200
Split Lip Magazine is interested in reviews and interviews from recently released (within the last nine months) or forthcoming literary collections. We will not consider submissions written by a friend or family member of the reviewer/interviewer. If you've received a rejection from us, please do not resend the same work; we will not reconsider it. We will not consider any work that is not a review or interview. One submission (query or pre-written draft) at a time, please. We take queries/pitches on spec, and if we accept a query/pitch from you, we can try to get a copy of the book! Please also note that we don’t keep a list of books we’re interested in or a stable of writers on hand for reviews/interviews. If you know someone who’d like to cover your collection, have them submit to us!
Art
Max pieces: 1
Send us one high-resolution image or a link to your portfolio. No multiple submissions. Please let us respond to your first submission before submitting again. Materials may have been previously published online. We want art steeped in memory & awareness. Art that eats donuts & watches cartoons on Saturday mornings. Art that lives next door. Whose parents are immigrants. Art that’s lowbrow. Pop-surreal. Hyperreal. Abstract. Art that reminds us of our humanity.
Photography
Max pieces: 1
Send us one high-resolution image or a link to your portfolio. No multiple submissions. Please let us respond to your first submission before submitting again. Materials may have been previously published online.
Fiction
Max words: 3000
literary
experimental
Nonfiction
Max words: 3000
Send us your best unpublished literary, mainstream, or experimental writing between 1,000 and 3,000 words. Profanity, sex and such are permitted but we will not publish anything tickling the boundaries of pornography. As much as we like sci-fi, romance, mystery and adventure, please, no genre fiction.
Flash rules
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 1
Please read at least one piece from our archives to help discern if we're right for you Please double your line spacing and use a serif font. We favor interesting, literary narratives with a modern, pop culture appeal. Voice-driven prose gets us fired up.
Poetry
Max pieces: 1
Interview
Max words: 2000
Magazine
Founded in 2012 | 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 :)
MAUREEN LANGLOSS
Editor-in-Chief
AMY STUBER
Print & Flash Editor
WENDY OLESON
Managing Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)
Total tracked
362
Average acceptance rate
0.34%
Average response time
44 days
Average acceptance/rejection time
-/44 days
Fastest response time
3 days
Slowest response time
156 days
Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 181 days, 231 days, 269 days, 511 days, 1647 days
