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"Publishes original poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual artwork, and feature a blend of emerging and established voices. Ranked as one of the 25 Fastest Fiction & Poetry Markets in Duotrope's database."
Open:
Yes, till March 31, 2023
Vibe: Send us your best but less intimidating
Response time:
1 week / 6 days
Payment:
No
Simultaneous submissions:
Yes
Previously published:
No
Submission fee:
Free
Expedited submissions:
No
Available in print:
No
Examples online:
Yes
Average acceptance rate:
0%
Country:
United States
Year founded:
1951
Has Masthead info:
Yes

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Total tracked subs
52
Average acceptance rate
0% (so far)
Average response time
6 days
Average acceptance time
-
Average rejection time
6 days
Fastest response time
2 days
Slowest response time
14 days

Important stuff

Fast response
Social media: Active only on Facebook

Genres

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Fiction

Max words: 2500Max pieces: 3
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Nonfiction

Max words: 2500Max pieces: 3
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Poetry

Max pieces: 5
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Art

Max pieces: 10

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Editor-in-Chief

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Managing Editor

Alex Moon

Managing Editor

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Managing Editor

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Managing Editor

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Managing Editor

Examples

'SPLIT-BONED DOG' by Samantha DeFlitch

(excerpt)
My dog has a deformed rib, the vet says, it doesn’t hurt her. Maybe she bumped into a coffee table when she was two weeks, or played too rough with a brother. She’ll be fine. The vet continues her exam, pulling back gums, good teeth, good dog.
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'PEEL OUT' by Christopher Lanyon

(excerpt)
I’ve been eating a bag of clementines a day. I googled “how many oranges do you have to eat a day before it kills you?” feeling ambivalent about the answer. One of the things worth living for is eating a bag of clementines a day. I leave a fine spray of sticky juice across my computer screen. My nails and fingertips are turning that sickly nicotine yellow that boys love to write about but this time it’s not cigarettes, it’s eating a bag of clementines a day.
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'WHY I SHOULDN’T TIME TRAVEL' by David Galloway

(excerpt)
In fourth-grade band I played the trumpet mainly because my father had a trumpet and so I had a trumpet, not knowing that convenience and great art seldom go together, what I wanted, deeply wanted, was to play the drums, but those who were going to play had to go into another room, and that was too much for me, shyness matched my desire, so I was a trumpet player for six middling years, never excelling, always watching the drums and those who played them
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'PICKING MARBLES FROM DIRT' by Blaze Bernstein

(excerpt)
When I write, the world around me stops, and the gears in my head turn at a million miles per second. I write until I can’t write anymore, until the page is bursting with so many words and letters and syllables that if I were to fit one more period onto the end of a sentence the entire page might just burst and send missiles of consonants and vowels flying through the air, right back to where they came from. I have to choose what I put down on the page carefully, how the words roll off the tongue, how they mesh with their environment to create cohesive thoughts and sentences that drive forward the story towards its grand or garish denouement. The decision between brief and attaché or serene and halcyon lies only in the moment. I can always go back and edit and tweak what I have written, but it’s those first words that lick the paper that truly determine the story’s ultimate fate.
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