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Guidelines

"An online literary journal of transgression and alienation."

"An online literary journal of transgression and alienation."

Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time

within four weeks / 62 days

Acceptance Rate

66.67%

  • Payment

    No

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    No

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    No

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

3 genres

Fiction

Max words: 6000

And now, and for the first time ever... We publish Short Novels Max. word count for short novel submissions: 50,000 words | Min. word count:...

Nonfiction

Max words: 6000

creative non-fiction

Poetry

Max pieces: 10

no minimum but we would prefer it if you sent at least 3 poems.

Fiction

Max words: 6000

And now, and for the first time ever... We publish Short Novels Max. word count for short novel submissions: 50,000 words | Min. word count:...

Nonfiction

Max words: 6000

creative non-fiction

Poetry

Max pieces: 10

no minimum but we would prefer it if you sent at least 3 poems.

Statistics

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Track submission

13

Total submissions tracked

62 days

Average response time

66.67%

Average acceptance rate

23 days

Fastest response time

104 days

Slowest response time

*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 1 days

How to submit

Process

Send any materials that you wish to have considered for publication to climputh@gmail.com.

Cover letters

Please include your byline and a third-person bio with your submission.

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

Attachments in .doc, .docx, .rtf, .txt, or .odt format.

Rights for published work

Upon acceptance for publication, submitted pieces which appear in their entirety on personal blogs, self-publishing or other websites either must be removed from those websites, or replaced with excerpts. Upon submitting your work, you hereby grant (the) Squawk Back a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual and irrevocable license to use, reproduce, distribute, modify and display your content for any purpose, including without limitation promoting and redistributing part or all of the site. Works submitted to Squawk Back, whether officially or unofficially copyrighted, will remain the full intellectual property of their authors. We are far less interested in exploiting emergent literary voices than providing them with a louder box with which to squawk.

Additional info

About the Magazine

Founded in 2011 | 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 :)

Tube Radcliffe

Editor-in-Chief

Cheryl Spinner

Editor

Kaj Tanaka

Editor