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

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

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Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time

4-6 weeks / 67 days

Acceptance Rate

27.27%

  • Payment

    No

  • 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

Accepted genres

6 genres

Fiction

Max words: 2500

Max pieces: 5

Nonfiction

Max words: 2500

Max pieces: 5

CNF

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

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...

Interview

Send Interviews Request to Molly at vagabondcityinterviews@gmail.com

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...

Fiction

Max words: 2500

Max pieces: 5

Nonfiction

Max words: 2500

Max pieces: 5

CNF

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

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...

Interview

Send Interviews Request to Molly at vagabondcityinterviews@gmail.com

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...

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Track submission

19

Total submissions tracked

67 days

Average response time

27.27%

Average acceptance rate

29 days

Fastest response time

125 days

Slowest response time

*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 840 days

How to submit

Process

Send your submission to the appropriate email desk.

Cover letters

Please include a third-person bio, any social media handles, and where you learned about us in the body of the email.

Eligibility

All marginalized creators

Formatting

We prefer the work to be attached as a .doc or .docx file.

Rights for published work

This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.

Additional info

We don’t accept works that play into the traditional oppressiveness of the literary canon, i.e. voicing the stories we hear often from the perspectives of cishet, white, upper-class able-bodied males. No slurs, unless you’re reclaiming them; if this is the case, please be sure that these slurs align with identities you’ve told us you have in your bio.

About the Magazine

Founded in 2013 | United States

This is a world in which the loudest voices are the marginalized. This is a world of poetry, prose, art, reviews, and interviews that fits outside the mainstream literary scene, yet still of significant literary merit. We actively seek work from authors and creators from diverse and marginalized backgrounds and identities. We don’t care who has (not) published your work in the past. We are interested in hearing from those who are drowning.

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