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The Garlic Press

Literary Magazine

Fiction

Flash Fiction

Fiction (Micro)

Nonfiction

Flash Nonfiction

Poetry

Hybrid

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an online literary magazine for extra pungent poetry and prose

Highlights

  • Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
  • Response time:
    2-4 months*
    Editor reported data
  • Acceptance rate:
    ?

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FeeNo

  • 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

  • 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

Max pieces: 2

Sub Genres: All / surprise us, Literary

Fiction

Max pieces: 2

Sub Genres: All / surprise us, Literary

Fiction

Max pieces: 2

Sub Genres: All / surprise us, Literary

Nonfiction

Max pieces: 2

Sub Genres: All / surprise us, , ,

Nonfiction

Max pieces: 2

Sub Genres: All / surprise us, , , , , , , ,

Poetry

Min pieces: 1

Max pieces: 3

Hybrid

Max pieces: 3

How to submit

  • Processs

    Email

  • Cover letter

    No cover letter advice

  • Eligibility

    No specific eligibility requirements

  • Formatting

    .doc, .docx, or .pdf. Please begin each poem/prose piece on a new page.

  • Author's rights

    Publication Rights: If your work is accepted for publication, we ask only for the right to publish it for the first time online. All rights revert to the author immediately after publication. If your work appears elsewhere later, please acknowledge The Garlic Press as the first place of publication. 

  • Additional info

Tracker statistics

27

Total submissions tracked

26 days

Average response time

0%

Average acceptance rate

14 days

Fastest response time

39 days

Slowest response time

*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 76 days

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Managed by editors

Submission calls

    All genres

    Always open

    Issue 2: Summer issue

    Open

    Deadline: Jun 30, 2024

    Issue 3: Fall issue

    Open

    Deadline: Sep 30, 2024

    Issue 4: Winter issue

    Open

    Deadline: Dec 31, 2024

    Issue 3: Fall issue

    Jul 1, 2024 - Sep 30, 2024

    Issue 4: Winter issue

    Oct 1, 2024 - Dec 31, 2024

About

The Garlic Press is an online literary magazine for extra pungent poetry and prose—by which we mean vivid, mean sticky and raw, mean flavorful, biting, sharp-edged. We’re looking for work that stings us awake and leaves us revitalized, fortified against the viruses of apathy and inattention; work th...

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Founded

2024

Country

US

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