"The Forge Literary Magazine was founded by volunteers from the Fiction Forge, an international online writers’ forum."
Introduction
Vibe
Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok
Response Time
/ 10 days
Average acceptance rate
1% / 4.26%
Need to know for submitting
Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox
Simultaneous submissions
Yes
Previously published
No
Payment
$75/piece
Fee
No
Expedited response
No
Available in print
No
Provide contributor copies
No
Examples online
Yes
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
05
Demographics & Eligibility
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Formatting requirements 🏗️
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Rights for published work 🏗️
Types of Submissions Accepted
Fiction
Max words: 5000
Max pieces: 1
We prefer stories below 3,000 words.
all
Nonfiction
Max words: 5000
Max pieces: 1
We prefer stories below 3,000 words.
Magazine
Founded in 2016 | ?
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 :)
John Haggerty
Founding Editor
Sara Crowley
Co-Managing Editor
Sarah Starr Murphy
Co-Managing Editor
Valerie O'Riordan
Senior Editor
Sommer Schafer
Senior Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)
Total tracked
48
Average acceptance rate
4.26%
Average response time
10 days
Average acceptance/rejection time
296/9 days
Fastest response time
0 days
Slowest response time
30 days
Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 561 days