Vestal Review
Literary Magazine
Vestal Review is the longest-running flash fiction magazine in the world. Our stories have been reprinted in numerous anthologies and selected for Wigleaf Top 50 many times. We’re eclectic in style and open to all genres.
Highlights
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 1 month*/Editor reported data12 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: 2% */Editor reported data6.52%*Chill Subs tracker stats
Pays$75 per piece
Find more details in the Genres section
Fee$3
Find more details in the Genres section
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
Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction
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
Fiction - 500 words max
Max words: 500
Max pieces: 1
Sub Genres: Literary, Absurdist, Action-Adventure, Crime, Experimental, Fantasy, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Gothic, Historical, Horror, Humor, LGBTQ+ Stories, Magical Realism, Mystery, Noir, Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative, Thriller
Submission fee: $ 3
Payment: $ 75 per piece
Review
Max words: 500
Payment: $ 75 per piece
Interview
Max words: 500
Max pieces: 1
Payment: $ 75 per piece
How to submit
Processs
Submittable
Cover letter
Please enclose two or three lines of a third-person bio note. We will not consider an anonymous submission. These guidelines are created to make the editors’ lives easier and our replies better informed.
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.
Author's rights
We ask for first electronic rights. In addition, we ask for no posting of the accepted story anywhere on the web, or in print in the United States or Canada, for 30 days after its exclusive appearance on the Vestal Review website. After this period, all rights revert to the writer, but we ask that you acknowledge Vestal Review in any subsequent printing of the material published here, whether on the web or in hard copy. We also ask for one year archiving rights and anthology rights. Anthology rights are secondary, meaning that authors may sell their stories to any other anthology market, providing that 30 days have passed after the Vestal Review publication.
Additional info
Vestal Review actively seeks work from writers in underrepresented groups. If you belong in such a category, please put that information in your cover letter, and we’ll give your material priority consideration.
Tracker statistics
61
Total submissions tracked
12 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
3 days
Fastest response time
26 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 96 days
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