Theme
Mortality
Table of contents
A Death Positive literary magazine featuring prose, poetry and art about death, dying and the mortal experience. Our goal is to encourage and broaden conversations about death and dying through literature and art. Many people are hesitant to talk about death, but that doesn't have to be the case!
Vibe
Weird / outsider / wtf even is it
Response Time
Average acceptance rate
Types of Submissions Accepted
Fiction
Max words: 3000
Max pieces: 2
Nonfiction
Max words: 3000
Max pieces: 2
Poetry
Max pieces: 3
We consider poems in any form: free-verse, sonnets, haikus, villanelles. We welcome unexpected, hybrid and experimental work.
Art
Max pieces: 5
All forms: photography, illustration, sculpture, fiber arts.
Photography
See "Art"
Hybrid
See "Poetry".
Fiction
Max words: 3000
Max pieces: 2
Nonfiction
Max words: 3000
Max pieces: 2
Poetry
Max pieces: 3
We consider poems in any form: free-verse, sonnets, haikus, villanelles. We welcome unexpected, hybrid and experimental work.
Art
Max pieces: 5
All forms: photography, illustration, sculpture, fiber arts.
Need to know for submitting
Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox
01
Details
02
How to submit 🏗️
03
Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️
04
Awards
05
Demographics & Eligibility
06
Formatting requirements 🏗️
07
Rights for published work 🏗️
Magazine
Founded in 2022 | 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 :)
Rebecca Kilroy
Editor-in-Chief
Arden Delphine Young
Editor-in-Chief
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)
Total tracked
20
Average acceptance rate
20%
Average response time
94 days
Average acceptance/rejection time
87/95 days
Fastest response time
75 days
Slowest response time
109 days
Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 0 days
