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"The Baffler is America’s leading voice of interesting and unexpected left-wing political criticism, cultural analysis, short stories, poems and art. We publish six print issues annually, as well as online content every day of the cursed workweek."
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Open for submissions

Introduction
Vibe

Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok

Response Time
/ 37 days
Average acceptance rate
0%

Need to know for submitting

Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox

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      Simultaneous submissions

      Yes

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      Previously published

      No

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      Payment

      Yes

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      Fee

      No

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      Expedited response

      No

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      Available in print

      Yes

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      Provide contributor copies

      No

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      Examples online

      Yes

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      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 🏗️

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Types of Submissions Accepted

4 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Fiction

anything that sounds like an academic “workshop” or writers’ “colony” will be printed out and lit on fire.

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Poetry

No specific limitations

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Art

No specific limitations

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Nonfiction

No specific limitations

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Fiction

anything that sounds like an academic “workshop” or writers’ “colony” will be printed out and lit on fire.

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Poetry

No specific limitations

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Art

No specific limitations

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Nonfiction

No specific limitations

Magazine

Founded in 1988 | 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 :)

Bidi Choudhury
Managing Editor
Dave Denison
Senior Editor
Jess Bergman
Web Editor
Zach Webb
Associate Editor
J.W. McCormack
Literary Editor
Chris Lehmann
Editor at Large
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

39

Average acceptance rate

0% (so far)

Average response time

37 days

Average acceptance/rejection time

-/37 days

Fastest response time

6 days

Slowest response time

90 days

Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 174 days