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||Most magazines are stuck in an exhausting dance

I love a good bit of hyperbole, but I prefer data. And the data we see at Chill Subs, our platform that tracks thousands of literary magazines and submission calls, paints a pretty clear picture: submission fees aren’t the exception anymore, they’re the rule at the top. Across all the literary magazines we track, about 13% charge fees. Zoom in on Brecht De Poortere’s top 1000, and that number jumps to 24%. Narrow it further to just the top 100 most popular magazines, and it spikes to 56%. That’s not a slippery slope. It’s a cliff. The higher the prestige, the more likely it is that writers are paying just to be considered. fromThe Rise of the Submission Industrial Complex[LitHub]posted bychavenetat 12:06 AM -27 comments