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The Marbled Sigh

Literary Magazine

Poetry

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A poetry journal by emerging writers for emerging writers.

Highlights

This magazine may have some eligibility requirements

Please double-check before submitting.

  • Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
  • Response time:
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  • Acceptance rate:
    30% *
    Editor reported data

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  • Accepts simultaneous submissions

    What's that?

    When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time

  • Accepts previously published

    What's that?

    When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary

  • Nominates for prizes

    From the editors

    Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net

  • Active on social media

  • Available in print

  • Provides contributor copies

  • Has examples online

  • Offers expedited response

    What's that?

    Expedited submission: When the magazine offers a faster response time for an extra fee

Poetry

Min pieces: 3

Max pieces: 5

How to submit

  • Processs

    Email

  • Cover letter

    Send a quick "hello!" Don't worry, we don't bite. Send 3-5 previously unpublished poems and list the name of each poem.

  • Eligibility


    Emerging writers (anyone who has published no more than 1 full-length book)

  • Formatting

    Place your poems in the body of the email. If your poems have unique line breaks or are visual poetry, please submit through a word document or PDF.

  • Author's rights

    All rights revert back to the author upon publication. Please mention us, The Marbled Sigh, in the acknowledgments if your poems are published elsewhere (another journal/litmag, chapbook, full-length collection etc).

  • Additional info

Tracker statistics

23

Total submissions tracked

8 days

Average response time

25%

Average acceptance rate

7 days

Fastest response time

62 days

Slowest response time

*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 125 days

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Submission calls

    Political Poems: An Online Anthology

    Open

    Deadline: Dec 1, 2024

    Political Poems: An Online Anthology

About

The Marbled Sigh is a poetry journal by emerging writers for emerging writers. Our mission is to "publish poets not poems," so we publish AT-LEAST 2-3 poems per acceptance.

Founded

2023

Country

US

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    Editor Nidhi Gandhi avatar

    Nidhi Gandhi

    Editor-in-Chief

    Editor Jonathan Memmert avatar

    Jonathan Memmert

    Associate Editor