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Literary Magazine

Crow & Cross Keys

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Poetry

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Crow & Cross Keys latest issue

Seeking the wonderful and the bizarre, the beautiful and the dark. Home to all things dark and lovely.

Highlights

  • Vibe:Weird / outsider / wtf even is it
  • Response time:
    60 days after submission*
    Editor reported data
     / 
    61 days*
    Chill Subs tracker stats
  • Acceptance rate:
    ?*
    Editor reported data
     / 
    16.05%*
    Chill Subs tracker stats

Publication

  • Accepts simultaneous submissions

    What's that?

    When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time

  • Accepts previously published

    From the editors

    Anthologies, Blogs, Defunct Mags, Only Appeared In Print, Other Lit Mags, Personal Websites, Social Media

    What's that?

    When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary

  • Nominates for prizes

  • Active on social media

  • Available in print

  • Provides contributor copies

  • Has examples online

  • Offers expedited response

  • Runs themed calls

How to submit

  • Processs

    Email

  • Cover letter

    You don’t need to write a formal cover letter and we do not need your address, but we would love to get to know you! Include a brief third-person bio in your email and any relevant social media/website links—if accepted, your bio can be updated at any time, just let us know.

  • Eligibility

    No specific eligibility requirements

  • Formatting

    Please attach submissions as .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .otf files and include a PDF version for reference if your work has specific layout needs. Please do not paste submissions into the body of your email.

  • Author's rights

    We claim first electronic rights and non-exclusive archival rights. But the copyright of your work always remains yours. Where possible, we request exclusivity for 30 days post-publishing. After that, you are free to post/submit it wherever you choose. If the work is published elsewhere, we ask that you credit Crow & Cross Keys as the first publisher.

  • Additional info

    Active on social media Accept previously published: "prefer work that has not been published recently" "Contract includes clause for back-paying each contributor in the event we become a paying market" Will not knowingly accept AI-generated work.

Tracker statistics

190

Total submissions tracked

61 days

Average response time

16.05%

Average acceptance rate

3 days

Fastest response time

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The Submissions Grinder Statistics

15.51%

12-month average acceptance rate

71 days

12-month average response time

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About

Crow & Cross Keys is a new, online literary journal that plucks fiction and poetry from skeletal trees and gives it a place to take root. Send us your skeleton keys, your tar-black feathers, send us your calcified forests and ramshackle castles. Take us somewhere beautiful and dark and strange.

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    Elou Carroll

    Editor-in-Chief