Genres & Theme
Literary Mainstream Open to all / most themes, including: Political. I’m looking for fiction that resembles the Thirty-Mile Woman from Toni Morrison’s Beloved: ‘She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.’ Or as Takashi Murakami puts it: ‘We want to see the newest things. That is because we want to see the future, even if only momentarily. It is the moment in which, even if we don’t completely understand what we have glimpsed, we are nonetheless touched by it. This is what we have come to call art.’ I’m looking for fiction in which a heart struggles against itself, in which the messy unmanageable complexity of the world is revealed. Sentences that are so sharp they cut the eye.” TEMPORARILY CLOSED: Temporarily closed to submissions. Electronic submissions encouraged. Submissions Periods Open to fiction submissions from Tuesday, January 01, 2008 to Wednesday, December 31, 2008 Open to poetry submissions from Monday, September 15, 2008 to Friday, May 15, 2009 (120.4 days from now)	Go To: Website Support this Publisher: Subscribe Report: Submission/Response Correction/Update New Cover
Lengths
Poetry (varies, read guidelines) Short Story (1,000 - 4,000 words)
Media
Print Publication
Payscale
Payment ranges from semi-pro to professional rates for Short Fiction Unknown Rates for Poetry
Other Info
Accepts postal submissions and electronic submissions
Allows simultaneous submissions (always follow proper simultaneous submission etiquette)
No reprints accepted
No multiple submissions allowed
Published 6 x per year
USA
Response Times
Show Overall Short Fiction Poetry Electronic Subs Postal Subs   Note: These statistics are compiled from response reports sent to us anonymously and through our submissions tracker for registered users. They are not provided by the publication's editors/staff or by Duotrope's staff. This market ranks among the Top 25 Most Challenging Short Fiction Markets This market ranks among the Top 25 Most Challenging Poetry Markets Accuracy We have received 181 reports within the past 12 months, not including 29 pending responses (with an avg. wait of 37 days). The more responses reported, the more accurate the info. Rejections are often underreported, which skews the statistics in favor of acceptances. Most markets have a lower acceptance rate than indicated here. Days Reported 2 | 85.7* | 634 (min | avg | max) *This data has been normalized to reduce the effect of reported long waits before withdrawals or assumed rejections. Responses (95%) Acceptances: 1.1% (182.5 days avg. per acceptance) Rejections: 93.9% (79.5 days avg. per rejection) | 18.2% personal, 64.7% form, 17.1% unspecified Rewrite Requests: - Non-Responses (5%) Assumed Rejections: 1.7% (384 days avg. per assumed rejection without response) Author Withdrawals: 3.3% (97.2 days avg. per withdrawal by author) Other Information Submissions are acknowledged within one day on average. Most recent response reported was received on: 09 May 2008 Responses have been received for submissions sent as late as: 10 Apr 2008 Do not query before 120 days have passed. (22.1% of the responses reported to us for this market have taken longer than 120 days.)
Awards, "Best of" Annuals, etc.
Work published has been awarded, nominated for, or received honorable mention in the following: Best American Poetry O. Henry Prize Poetry Daily
Market Added: 02 Aug 2005 Last Updated: 15 May 2008 Last Checked: 12 May 2008

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