The 23 Fastest Response Times (Out of 3000+ Literary Journals & Magazines)
Whoosh. But also, woah.
Fast response times are the best! Well, no, money is the best followed closely by popcorn. But still, fast response times are pretty damn great. So, for today’s list, I crawled into our data pile and pulled out 23 of the fastest mags I could find.
First, I cut it down by stated response times under one week. Then I took only the lit mags with 10 or more tracked submissions and cut anyone with over 7 days from there as well. And viola! Popcorn!
Or, no, sorry. 23 lit mags! All seem pretty much guaranteed to get you your submission back within a week. I know some folks don’t care about this, but when I see a short response time on a lit mag I like, I always submit to them first since then I can know much sooner if I’m going to head down the rabbit hole of 10-15 other submissions for the same story.
If you can find 3-5 lit mags with super fast response times, start there whenever you have a new piece. If it doesn’t make it into any of them, but still believe in the piece, then submit to 10-15 more with slower response times.
Spreadsheet download is at the end with additional information on how many submissions were tracked and their stated response times.
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