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"An online literary magazine publishing creative writing in all genres and art in all media."
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Introduction

The Offing publishes work that challenges, experiments, provokes — work that pushes literary and artistic forms and conventions. The Offing is a place for new and emerging writers to test their voices, and for established writers to test their limits. The Offing actively seeks out and supports work by and about those often marginalized in literary spaces, including Black and Indigenous people, and people of color; trans people, cis women, agender, gender non-conforming, genderqueer, two-spirit, and non-binary people; intersex people; LGBQA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, asexual/aromantic) people; people with disabilities; and especially people living at the intersections of these identities.

Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time
6 months / 139 days
Average acceptance rate
9.52%

Types of Submissions Accepted

6 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Fiction

Our Fiction department is happy to consider excerpts from novels and short story collections, especially from small presses. If you have something you would like considered, email excerpts as a Word .doc to mary@theoffingmag.com. Please note that we currently don't have a budget to pay for excerpts, but we do want to help bring readers to books that might otherwise get overlooked.

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Nonfiction

No specific limitations

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Poetry

Max pieces: 5

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Art

The Offing's Art department seeks visual art, including paintings, sculptures, installations, and performances. Our features can be as broad as an entire practice, or as focused as a single work. We also take writing on, about, or inspired by art such as reviews, critiques, essays or think-pieces.

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Comics

The Offing is interested in publishing all manner of comics and graphic story telling.

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Translations

No specific limitations

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Fiction

Our Fiction department is happy to consider excerpts from novels and short story collections, especially from small presses. If you have something you would like considered, email excerpts as a Word .doc to mary@theoffingmag.com. Please note that we currently don't have a budget to pay for excerpts, but we do want to help bring readers to books that might otherwise get overlooked.

nonfiction genre icon

Nonfiction

No specific limitations

poetry genre icon

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

art genre icon

Art

The Offing's Art department seeks visual art, including paintings, sculptures, installations, and performances. Our features can be as broad as an entire practice, or as focused as a single work. We also take writing on, about, or inspired by art such as reviews, critiques, essays or think-pieces.

Need to know for submitting

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    Details

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    How to submit 🏗️

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    Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️

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    Awards

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    Demographics & Eligibility

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    Formatting requirements 🏗️

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    Rights for published work 🏗️

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Magazine

Founded in 2015 | United States

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 :)

Mimi Wong
Editor-in-Chief
Ashaki M. Jackson
Publisher
Connie Ni Chiu
Managing Editor
Patrick Mullen-Coyoy
Deputy Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

108

Average acceptance rate

9.52%

Average response time

139 days

Average acceptance/rejection time

50/154 days

Fastest response time

12 days

Slowest response time

438 days

Contributors on Chill Subs

Mia S. Willis avatarKlein Voorhees avatarMatthew Mastricova avatarSahalie A Martin avatarAngie Kang avatar
5 pieces