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"a digital space feat. poetry, art, nonfiction, interviews, and reviews by marginalized creators"
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Open for submissions

Introduction
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Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time
4-6 weeks / 58 days
Average acceptance rate
33.33%

Need to know for submitting

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      Simultaneous submissions

      Yes

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      Previously published

      No

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      Payment

      No

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      Fee

      No

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      Expedited response

      No

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      Available in print

      No

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      Provide contributor copies

      No

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      Examples online

      Yes

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      Active on social media

      Yes

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    Important stuff

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    How to submit 🏗️

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    Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️

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    Awards

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    Demographics & Eligibility

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    Formatting requirements 🏗️

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    Rights for published work 🏗️

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Types of Submissions Accepted

6 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Poetry

Max pieces: 5

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Interview

Send Interviews Request to Molly at vagabondcityinterviews@gmail.com

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Review

Max words: 1500

If you would like to submit a review, we accept book and chapbook reviews of works. You can check out our Books Available for Review list or you can submit a review for a book or chapbook we don’t have on the list as long as it’s written by a marginalized author and/or an author of color. You can check out our review style and format here. Send a quick overview and available links to vagabondcityliterary@gmail.com. We’ll add your info to our Books Available to Review list and let you know if anyone requests to review your work.

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Fiction

Max words: 2500

Max pieces: 5

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Nonfiction

Max words: 2500

Max pieces: 5

CNF

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Art

Max pieces: 6

We select one featured artist per issue. If you are interested in being our featured artist, please submit your third-person bio, a sampling of your work (4-6 pieces), and where you learned about us. If selected, we will set up an interview with you to publish along with your work.

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Poetry

Max pieces: 5

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Interview

Send Interviews Request to Molly at vagabondcityinterviews@gmail.com

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Review

Max words: 1500

If you would like to submit a review, we accept book and chapbook reviews of works. You can check out our Books Available for Review list or you can submit a review for a book or chapbook we don’t have on the list as long as it’s written by a marginalized author and/or an author of color. You can check out our review style and format here. Send a quick overview and available links to vagabondcityliterary@gmail.com. We’ll add your info to our Books Available to Review list and let you know if anyone requests to review your work.

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Fiction

Max words: 2500

Max pieces: 5

Magazine

Founded in 2013 | ?

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 :)

Alana King
Editor-in-Chief
Nicole-Anne Bales Keyton
Editor
Christian Bañez
Editor
Ola Faleti
Editor
Clair Dunlap
Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

18

Average acceptance rate

33.33%

Average response time

58 days

Average acceptance/rejection time

336/49 days

Fastest response time

29 days

Slowest response time

100 days

Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 840 days

Contributors on Chill Subs

Molly Harris avatar
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