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"We aim for content that reminds us that our lenses matter—they focus, distort, clarify, conceal. We value and emphasize relationships between the literary and visual arts, pairing the majority of the pieces we publish with original work from a variety of contributing visual artists."
"We aim for content that reminds us that our lenses matter—they focus, distort, clarify, conceal. We value and emphasize relationships between the literary and visual arts, pairing the majority of the pieces we publish with original work from a variety of contributing visual artists."
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Response Time
Acceptance Rate
Payment
Yes: $50
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: Twitter: No | Instagram: Yes
Accepted genres
3 genres
Fiction
Max words: 5000
Nonfiction
Max words: 5000
Poetry
Min pieces: 3
Max pieces: 5
Fiction
Max words: 5000
Nonfiction
Max words: 5000
Poetry
Min pieces: 3
Max pieces: 5
Statistics
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33
Total submissions tracked
111 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
16 days
Fastest response time
210 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 952 days
How to submit
Process
We use Submittable. Please DO NOT submit to more than one category at a time.
Cover letters
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Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
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Rights for published work
Authors retain all rights to their work, but The Spectacle requests that you wait three months after publication to republish your work elsewhere (exceptions will be considered). If your work is republished, we ask that you note its initial publication in The Spectacle.
Additional info
Website has some issues on mobile, the screen is cut off horizontally - just a little downside in the reading experience area
About the Magazine
Founded in 2015 | United States
The first issue of The Spectacle was launched in the fall of 2015, with Kelly Caldwell, Cassie Donish, and Jonathan McGregor at the helm. Twice a year, the magazine publishes issues that include poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art, while THE REVUE publishes flash prose, short poems, interviews, special features, and other pieces year-round. Based out of the English, Creative Writing, and Visual Art departments at Washington University in St. Louis, The Spectacle is committed to publishing work from under-represented voices, including BIPOC, women, people from LGBTQIA+ communities, and people who have disabilities.
Masthead
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Michael J. Sanders
Editor-in-Chief
Jenny Wu
Editor
Sophie He
Editor
S. Yarberry
Editor
Examples
1 pieces from Chill Subs people
