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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."

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Introduction

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
2 days-2 months / 2 days
Average acceptance rate
0%

Types of Submissions Accepted

4 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Fiction

Max words: 4000

Table Talk items 1000 words or less. Stories 4000 words or less.

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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

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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.

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Review

Max words: 2500

Max pieces: 1

Critical articles should be about 1200 to 2500 words.

fiction genre icon

Fiction

Max words: 4000

Table Talk items 1000 words or less. Stories 4000 words or less.

nonfiction genre icon

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 genre icon

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 genre icon

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

  • 01

    Details

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  • 02

    How to submit 🏗️

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  • 03

    Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️

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  • 04

    Awards

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  • 05

    Demographics & Eligibility

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  • 06

    Formatting requirements 🏗️

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  • 07

    Rights for published work 🏗️

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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

Contributors on Chill Subs

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