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Pithead Chapel

pitheadchapel.com

Fiction

Nonfiction

Multimedia

Poetry

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We’re looking for engaging art, fiction, nonfiction, and prose poetry. Most of all, we want your work to make us feel something. We want to reach the last word and immediately crave more. We want your work to leave a brilliant bruise.

Highlights

  • Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
  • Response time:
    60 days after submission*
    Editor reported data
     / 
    16 days*
    Chill Subs tracker stats
  • Acceptance rate:
    ?*
    Editor reported data
     / 
    3.77%*
    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

    What's that?

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

  • Nominates for prizes

    From the editors

    Best Microfiction, Best Of The Net, Best Small Fiction, Pushcart

  • Active on social media

  • Available in print

  • Provides contributor copies

  • Has examples online

  • Offers expedited response

  • Runs themed calls

How to submit

  • Processs

    Submittable

  • Cover letter

    This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.

  • Eligibility

    No specific eligibility requirements

  • Formatting

    Name, email address, and phone number appears on the first page of the story or prose poem. Work is double spaced and has a 12-point font (preferably Times New Roman). Document is saved as a rtf, .doc, or .docx file (we will not accept any other file types). Work has page numbers (this doesn’t apply to prose poem submissions).

  • Author's rights

    If your work is accepted by Pithead Chapel, you’re granting us First Serial Rights, along with nonexclusive Electronic Archival Rights, to showcase your work indefinitely on our site. At the time of publication, all rights revert back to the author. If you republish the work elsewhere, all we ask is that you please credit us as the first publisher.

  • Additional info

    Only send one submission at a time.

Tracker statistics

395

Total submissions tracked

16 days

Average response time

3.77%

Average acceptance rate

0 days

Fastest response time

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The Submissions Grinder Statistics

2.56%

12-month average acceptance rate

6 days

12-month average response time

About

Pithead Chapel is an independent and volunteer-run literary journal and small press founded in 2012 in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. We publish art, fiction, nonfiction, and prose poetry online every month by emerging and established artists.

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US

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    Editor Kim Magowan avatar

    Kim Magowan

    Editor-in-Chief

    Editor Brittany Terwilliger avatar

    Brittany Terwilliger

    Managing Editor

    Editor Katherine Gehan avatar

    Katherine Gehan

    Nonfiction Editor

    Editor Simeon Berry avatar

    Simeon Berry

    Prose Poetry Editor