The Harvard Advocate
Literary Magazine
The Harvard Advocate, founded in 1866, is the oldest continuously published collegiate literary magazine in the country. A quarterly magazine, The Advocate's mission is to publish the best art, fiction, poetry, and prose that the Harvard undergraduate community offers.
Highlights
This magazine may have some eligibility requirements
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- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
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- Acceptance rate: ?
PaysNo
FeeNo
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
From the editors
Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
From the editors
One
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
What's that?
Expedited submission: When the magazine offers a faster response time for an extra fee
Fiction - 7000 words max
Max words: 700
Max words: 7000
Sub Genres: Literary
Poetry
Min pieces: 1
Max pieces: 6
Hybrid (illustrated forms of poetry)
Max pieces: 6
Art
No specific limitations
How to submit
Processs
Google / other forms
Cover letter
No cover letter advice
Eligibility
The Harvard Advocate prioritizes submissions from within the Harvard undergraduate community, though welcomes submissions from all.Formatting
Please remove all identifying information from any submissions. FICTION: Attach your work as a Microsoft Word file, 12-point Times New Roman, double-spaced POETRY: Attach your work as a Microsoft Word or PDF file. Please include all poems in a single document.
Author's rights
The Harvard Advocate acquires first publication rights for all accepted work.
Additional info
The Harvard Advocate accepts submissions created by members of the Harvard community, as well as outside contributors at our discretion. All submissions are considered anonymously.
Tracker statistics
22
Total submissions tracked
119 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
13 days
Fastest response time
200 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 1084 days
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About
The Harvard Advocate, founded in 1866, is the oldest continuously published collegiate literary magazine in the country. Over its long history, it can count T.S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, and Norman Mailer among its members and e.e. cummings, Jack Kerouac, and Tom Wolfe as contributors to its pages. A qu...
Read moreFounded
1866
Country
US
Masthead
Varya Lyapneva
Editor-in-Chief
Maren Wong
President
Hugo Hinze & Thea Chung
Art Editors
Eve Jones & Jo Lemann
Fiction Editors
Leila Jackson
Poetry Editor