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Highlights

  • Vibe:Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok
  • Response time:
    180 days after submission*
    Editor reported data
     / 
    61 days*
    Chill Subs tracker stats
  • Acceptance rate:
    ?*
    Editor reported data
     / 
    1.14%*
    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 American, Best Microfiction, Best New Poets, Best Of The Net, Best Small Fiction, Best Spiritual Literature, O Henry, 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

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

  • Author's rights

    We buy first North American Serial Rights, and rights to the work revert to the author after publication. As a courtesy, we ask writers to note Shenandoah as the first place of publication when the work is anthologized, reprinted, or otherwise made public through another format.

  • Additional info

    We pay our contributors at the rate of $100 per poem, $100 per 1000 words of prose up to $500, and $50 per page of comics up to $500.

Tracker statistics

224

Total submissions tracked

61 days

Average response time

1.14%

Average acceptance rate

4 days

Fastest response time

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The Submissions Grinder Statistics

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12-month average acceptance rate

51 days

12-month average response time

About

Shenandoah was founded in 1950 by a group of Washington and Lee University faculty members and undergraduates, Tom Wolfe among them. For a brief time it was primarily an undergraduate magazine, but under the leadership of student editor Tom Carter, Shenandoah became a quarterly, publishing a cast of...

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    Editor Beth Staples avatar

    Beth Staples

    Editor-in-Chief

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    Brenna Womer

    Nonfiction Editor

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    DW McKinney

    Nonfiction Editor

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    Lesley Wheeler

    Poetry Editor

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    Chris Gavaler

    Comics Editor

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    Seth Michelson

    Translations Editor

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    Frederica Morgan Davis

    Fiction Editor

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    Clover Archer

    Art Editor

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    Charity Corman

    Managing Editor