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    Vestal Review

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    Vestal Review is the longest-running flash fiction magazine in the world. Our stories have been reprinted in numerous anthologies and selected for Wigleaf Top 50 many times. We’re eclectic in style and open to all genres.

    Highlights

    • Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
    • Response time:
      30 days after submission*
      Editor reported data
       / 
      14 days*
      Chill Subs tracker stats
    • Acceptance rate:
      2%*
      Editor reported data
       / 
      5.58%*
      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 Small Fiction

    • Active on social media

    • Available in print

    • Provides contributor copies

    • Has examples online

    How to submit

    • Processs

      Submittable

    • Cover letter

      Please enclose two or three lines of a third-person bio note. We will not consider an anonymous submission. These guidelines are created to make the editors’ lives easier and our replies better informed.

    • Eligibility

      No specific eligibility requirements

    • Formatting

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

    • Author's rights

      We ask for first electronic rights. In addition, we ask for no posting of the accepted story anywhere on the web, or in print in the United States or Canada, for 30 days after its exclusive appearance on the Vestal Review website. After this period, all rights revert to the writer, but we ask that you acknowledge Vestal Review in any subsequent printing of the material published here, whether on the web or in hard copy. We also ask for one year archiving rights and anthology rights. Anthology rights are secondary, meaning that authors may sell their stories to any other anthology market, providing that 30 days have passed after the Vestal Review publication.

    • Additional info

      Vestal Review actively seeks work from writers in underrepresented groups. If you belong in such a category, please put that information in your cover letter, and we’ll give your material priority consideration.

    Tracker statistics

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    Total submissions tracked

    14 days

    Average response time

    5.58%

    Average acceptance rate

    3 days

    Fastest response time

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    12-month average acceptance rate

    11 days

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    About

    Launched in 2000, Vestal Review is the longest-running flash fiction magazine on Earth—and perhaps the Milky Way. Past contributors include Steve Almond, Aimee Bender, Sam Lipsyte, Judith Cofer, Robert Boswell, Bruce Holland Rogers, Stuart Dybek, Robert Olen Butler, Pamela Painter, and many others. ...

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    Founded

    2000

    Country

    US

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      David Galef

      Editor-in-Chief

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      Blaise Allysen Kearsley

      Contributing Editor

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      Jasmine Ledesma

      Contributing Editor

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      Mandira Pattnaik

      Contributing Editor

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      Christopher Notarnicola

      Contributing Editor

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      Phil Olsen

      Contributing Editor

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      Lucy Zhang

      Contributing Editor

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      Angie Kang

      Art Director