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A well-regarded journal of the arts and society which has been published since 1980. Every issue contains excellent essays, stories, poems, and memoirs, plus beautiful black-and-white photographs.
Vibe
Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok
Response Time
Average acceptance rate
Types of Submissions Accepted
Fiction
Max words: 4000
Table Talk items 1000 words or less. Stories 4000 words or less.
Nonfiction
Max words: 4000
Max pieces: 1
Table Talk items 1000 words or less. Critical articles should be about 1200 to 2500 words. Memoirs 4000 words or less.
Flash rules
No specific limitations
Poetry
Max lines: 100
Max pieces: 5
Exceptions to the line limit are occasionally possible, but longer pieces will have a much harder time getting accepted.
Review
Max words: 2500
Max pieces: 1
Critical articles should be about 1200 to 2500 words.
Fiction
Max words: 4000
Table Talk items 1000 words or less. Stories 4000 words or less.
Nonfiction
Max words: 4000
Max pieces: 1
Table Talk items 1000 words or less. Critical articles should be about 1200 to 2500 words. Memoirs 4000 words or less.
Flash rules
No specific limitations
Poetry
Max lines: 100
Max pieces: 5
Exceptions to the line limit are occasionally possible, but longer pieces will have a much harder time getting accepted.
Review
Max words: 2500
Max pieces: 1
Critical articles should be about 1200 to 2500 words.
Need to know for submitting
Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox
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Details
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How to submit 🏗️
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Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️
04
Awards
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Demographics & Eligibility
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Formatting requirements 🏗️
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Rights for published work 🏗️
Magazine
Founded in 1980 | 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 :)
Wendy Lesser
Editor-in-Chief
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)
Total tracked
60
Average acceptance rate
0% (so far)
Average response time
2 days
Average acceptance/rejection time
-/2 days
Fastest response time
1 days
Slowest response time
8 days
Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 12 days, 18 days, 32 days, 102 days, 198 days, 839 days
