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"An online journal featuring nonfiction, fiction, poetry, criticism, journalism, author interviews, and multi-media texts. The bi-annual print magazine finished in spring 2019, ending its 11-year run."
"An online journal featuring nonfiction, fiction, poetry, criticism, journalism, author interviews, and multi-media texts. The bi-annual print magazine finished in spring 2019, ending its 11-year run."
Vibe
Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok
Response Time
Acceptance Rate
Payment
No
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
7 genres
Fiction
Max words: 5000
Nonfiction
Max words: 5000
Our ideal word count is around 3500, but we're open to more as well.
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
Any form, style, or focus
Hybrid
graphic fiction, nonfiction, or poetry, photo and video essays, spoken word pieces, and audio prose and poetry
Comics
No specific limitations
Audio
audio prose and poetry
Video
No specific limitations
Fiction
Max words: 5000
Nonfiction
Max words: 5000
Our ideal word count is around 3500, but we're open to more as well.
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
Any form, style, or focus
Hybrid
graphic fiction, nonfiction, or poetry, photo and video essays, spoken word pieces, and audio prose and poetry
Comics
No specific limitations
Audio
audio prose and poetry
Video
No specific limitations
Statistics
We're able to provide them because you use our tracker!
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33
Total submissions tracked
401 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
116 days
Fastest response time
904 days
Slowest response time
How to submit
Process
We use Submittable.
Cover letters
Please include a brief cover letter, and remind us if we know you.
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
All manuscripts must be double-spaced for fiction and nonfiction. Poetry may be single-spaced. All manuscripts should be formatted in a readable (12 point) font, with at least 1 inch margins. Name, address, and email on the submission. Format the document as .doc, .docx, .pdf, or .rtf.
Rights for published work
Coming soon! First, third, none, all the rights!
Additional info
Submission fee
About the Magazine
Founded in ? | United States
We are nestled happily into California State University, Fresno like a comfy spore in a benign and mighty lung. We dig quirky, boundary-challenging, energetic prose and poetry with innovations in content, form, and focus, which isn’t actually as high-falutin’ as it sounds. We’re just sort of the lit mag equivalent of the kid who always has bottle caps, cat’s eye marbles, dead animal skulls, little blue men and other treasures in their pockets. The Normal School is currently 100% staffed by graduate students of Fresno State’s Master of Fine Arts program, one of the most diverse creative writing programs in the country; and while we’re immensely proud of the magazine, we know there’s always more work to do. We remain steadfast in our commitment to publish work that challenges the norm while highlighting work from Black and Indigenous writers, writers of color, writers with disabilities, writers from LGBTQIA+ communities, and voices that have been historically under-represented and minoritized in the publishing world. Thank you for reading and supporting our efforts.
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 :)
Steven Church
Editor-in-Chief
Rosie Bates
Managing Editor
Examples
2 pieces from Chill Subs people
