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Oct 1, 2023

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"The Bombay Literary Magazine’s mission is to promote fine literature as well as a writerly perspective on how literature does what it does. We publish stories, poetry, essays, reviews and graphic fiction three times a year."

"The Bombay Literary Magazine’s mission is to promote fine literature as well as a writerly perspective on how literature does what it does. We publish stories, poetry, essays, reviews and graphic fiction three times a year."

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Response Time

65 days

Acceptance Rate

7.14%

  • Payment

    Yes: Rs5000

  • 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: 7000

Max pieces: 1

Regrettably, we do not publish flash fiction, novellas, or novels.

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

We usually select three to four poems per contributor. Please do not send us fewer than five poems— we wish to understand your range and sty...

Hybrid

Graphic fiction

Fiction

Max words: 7000

Max pieces: 1

Regrettably, we do not publish flash fiction, novellas, or novels.

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

We usually select three to four poems per contributor. Please do not send us fewer than five poems— we wish to understand your range and sty...

Hybrid

Graphic fiction

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Track submission

17

Total submissions tracked

65 days

Average response time

7.14%

Average acceptance rate

44 days

Fastest response time

93 days

Slowest response time

How to submit

Process

Submission form will be provided at the start of the submission period.

Cover letters

Cover letters are optional, and we always read the other material first. But we do like to learn about our authors.

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

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

Rights for published work

As writers, we are all-too-aware of how usurious publishing contracts can be. So we worked with Dr. Kalyan Kankanala, chief attorney at Banana IP, India’s leading intellectual-property law firm, to devise generous and equitable terms for the author. We only ask for the minimum set of digital rights that will let us legally display your work online, exclusively for a period of one year, but non-exclusively thereafter. You retain all other rights.

Additional info

They allow simultaneous subs, but require 5 poems for consideration, so if one poem is accepted during their consideration period, one has to re-submit with a new poem.

About the Magazine

Founded in ? | India

Our people are mostly located in India, and hence our content has a certain South-Asian orientation. However, this is only an accident of geography. As our archives spanning 8 years and 50 issues and 263,000+ words will illustrate, we welcome writers from all over the world. We love literature, but this love is not— at least we try to ensure it is not— a blind love. We like to mull over how something is written, and not get unbuttoned simply by what it is about, or why it was written, or who wrote it, or to which genre it belongs. Of course, we all know that style cannot be so neatly unzipped from content, yes, this we all know, of course. Unpacking this “of course” is of great interest to us. This is why we aim to publish writing that affect us as readers and writers. Similarly, in forthcoming issues, our essays will focus on the literary, rather than the political or cultural or topical. Our reviews, unavoidably lengthy, will consider the work at hand from a writerly perspective.

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 :)

ANIL MENON

Editor-in-Chief

TANUJ SOLANKI

Founder Editor

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