Open for submissions
Vibe
Send us your best but less intimidating
Response Time
Average acceptance rate
Need to know for submitting
Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox
Simultaneous submissions
Yes
Previously published
No
Payment
No
Fee
No
Expedited response
No
Available in print
No
Provide contributor copies
No
Examples online
Yes
Active on social media
Yes
01
Important stuff
02
How to submit 🏗️
03
Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️
04
Awards
05
Demographics & Eligibility06
Formatting requirements 🏗️
07
Rights for published work 🏗️
Types of Submissions Accepted
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
Interview
Send Interviews Request to Molly at vagabondcityinterviews@gmail.com
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.
Fiction
Max words: 2500
Max pieces: 5
Nonfiction
Max words: 2500
Max pieces: 5
CNF
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.
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
Interview
Send Interviews Request to Molly at vagabondcityinterviews@gmail.com
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.
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
