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"A quarterly art and lit, online and printed magazine prioritizing traditionally marginalized creators, but open to all"

"A quarterly art and lit, online and printed magazine prioritizing traditionally marginalized creators, but open to all"

Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time

2 weeks / 13 days

Acceptance Rate

43.64%

  • Payment

    Yes

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    Yes

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    Yes

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

4 genres

Fiction

Max words: 2000

Max pieces: 1

Nonfiction

Max words: 2000

Max pieces: 1

Poetry

No specific limitations

Art

No specific limitations

Fiction

Max words: 2000

Max pieces: 1

Nonfiction

Max words: 2000

Max pieces: 1

Poetry

No specific limitations

Art

No specific limitations

Statistics

We're able to provide them because you use our tracker!
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Track submission

61

Total submissions tracked

13 days

Average response time

43.64%

Average acceptance rate

0 days

Fastest response time

56 days

Slowest response time

*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 126 days, 360 days

How to submit

Process

We have our own submission form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeonL35JTZoium4mYvzc0CHf74TZS8fe2vdkys_yT22t1wHxw/viewform

Cover letters

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Eligibility

All marginalized creators

Formatting

This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.

Rights for published work

You retain the rights to your pieces after publication in our zine. We encourage you to submit your piece to other publications after it has appeared in ours (if their submissions allow it), we just ask that you acknowledge that it was previously published in ours first. We fully accept pieces that have been published elsewhere (if their submissions allow it) and will be happy to acknowledge that it was published elsewhere first. We want to get your creations in front of as many people as possible and are happy to do it!

Additional info

Make you feel at home: cozy, meme-friendly, a sense of community, all that stuff Active on social media "We will pay a modest amount ($10) for unpublished works through PayPal or Venmo to our Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) submitters, gender variant (agender/greygender, bigender/polygender, intergender/intersex, nonbinary/gender non-conforming, transgender) submitters, and disabled submitters." Helpful: reposting other opportunities on their Twitter:) "Because our issues do often deal with mature topics, our publication is open to creatives aged 16+ only." We will send a PDF of the issue to any submitter who wants one so they can get it printed and we offer copies to our submitters at cost (typically around $4.50-6 per issue, depending largely on the number of color pages and how many copies)

About the Magazine

Founded in 2010 | United States

The B’K is a quarterly art and lit, online and printed magazine prioritizing traditionally marginalized creators, but open to all.

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 :)

Chris Talbot-Heindl

Editor-in-Chief

Dana Talbot-Heindl

Editor