Storm Cellar - Fiction
(Poetry) (Nonfiction)
Description
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Storm Cellar is a national literary arts magazine with a special emphasis on the Midwest. We want your best stories (including flash), creative nonfiction, poems, and ideas penned on envelopes in buses and train cars. The magazine is eclectic, aiming to publish amazing work by new and established writers and artists, representing a range of styles and approaches, and generally be as un-boring as it can. If you write one thing to be read while waiting for the all-clear to sound, send it here.
Something unique, something weird (whatever that means); something that taps into universal human experience, or absolutely refuses to. Remember that exposition is not action, that the reader can think for herself, that a great idea demands great execution. We prefer you cut to the chase, or sink our battleship with beautiful sentences. We write too, and want to die a little of jealousy over your short stories.
Storm Cellar is a national literary arts magazine with a special emphasis on the Midwest. We want your best stories (including flash), creative nonfiction, poems, and ideas penned on envelopes in buses and train cars. The magazine is eclectic, aiming to publish amazing work by new and established writers and artists, representing a range of styles and approaches, and generally be as un-boring as it can. If you write one thing to be read while waiting for the all-clear to sound, send it here.
Something unique, something weird (whatever that means); something that taps into universal human experience, or absolutely refuses to. Remember that exposition is not action, that the reader can think for herself, that a great idea demands great execution. We prefer you cut to the chase, or sink our battleship with beautiful sentences. We write too, and want to die a little of jealousy over your short stories.
This market charges a fee of $5.00 to submit.
Submitting to this market is tied to subscription to a promotional newsletter: either they will subscribe you to the newsletter when you submit, or you must be a subscriber to submit.
Market Genres
Genres
GeneralLiterary
Market Types, Lengths & Pay Scale
Originals
Flash
0 to 1000 words
1 cent/word
Short Story
1000 to 5000 words
Less than 1 cent/word
Market Submission Types
AI Submissions?: Unknown Policy
Electronic Submissions?: Yes
Postal Submissions?: No
Multiple Submissions?: Yes
Simultaneous Submissions?: Yes
Translations: Original Language Only
Estimated Response: 84 days
Electronic Submissions?: Yes
Postal Submissions?: No
Multiple Submissions?: Yes
Simultaneous Submissions?: Yes
Translations: Original Language Only
Estimated Response: 84 days
Market-Provided Data
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Market Response Data (User-Reported)
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Count:
There are 9 completed reports in the past 12 months.
Averages and Boundaries:
Min: 95 | Average: 145.60 | Median: 101 | Max: 304
Responded:
55.55%
Accepted:
-
Rejected:
55.55% - avg 145 days
(0.00% of rejections are personal)
Rewrites:
-
Dead Letters:
-
Lost/Returned:
-
Never Responded:
-
Withdrawn:
44.44%
Pending:
There are 1 pending responses.
(43 min | 43.00 average | 43 median | 43 max days waiting)
Note: pending statistics may skew high if some users neglect their data.
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Submission Timeline for Storm Cellar
Submission Timeline
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Listing added: 14 February 2013
Last officially checked: 14 May 2024