The Swamp Ape is a legend that reflects Florida—its mythology, its weirdness—as well as the human desire to create a narrative around that which we can’t explain.
Highlights
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: ?*/Editor reported data92 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: ?*/Editor reported data21.43%*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
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
How to submit
Processs
Submittable
Cover letter
All work will be considered for both the print and online issues. If your work is meant to function in both formats (i.e. collaboratively in print and online), please indicate this in your cover letter. (We would love to see submissions of this nature.)
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
We don't have formatting requirements for this magazine
Author's rights
For all submissions (fiction, poetry, nonfiction, visual art, and swamp), we ask for the right to display and archive work in multiple electronic formats, such as on our website and in PDF, as well as in print for special issues. We acquire First Rights to the work (i.e. the piece must not have been previously published in print or online), with all rights reverting back to the author upon publication. After publication, we greatly appreciate any reprints acknowledging that the piece was first published in Swamp Ape Review.
Additional info
Tracker statistics
20
Total submissions tracked
92 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
7 days
Fastest response time
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About
Sometimes referred to as a “Skunk Ape” or “Swamp Cabbage Man,” the Swamp Ape is the southern equivalent of Bigfoot—an eight-foot-tall missing evolutionary link—but ours has the bonus of smelling awful. Taking this legend into account, submissions to the Swamp should defy form to the extent that the ...
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2017
Country
US
Masthead
Sierra Yetka
Co-Editors in Chief
Sarah V. Dumitrascu
Co-Editors in Chief
Parker Yontz
Co-Managing Editor
Crystal Murr
Poetry Editor
Vivian Murphy
Nonfiction Editor
Carrie-Anna Wade
Fiction Editor
Pilar Garcia Guzman
Co-Managing Editors