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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
Acceptance Rate
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Regrettably, we do not publish flash fiction, novellas, or novels.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Regrettably, we do not publish flash fiction, novellas, or novels.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
Statistics
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17
Total submissions tracked
65 days
Average response time
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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