Am I obsessed with how fast/slow various journals respond to submissions? Yes, especially when my own work is out making the rounds and I'm dying for a word or two. Here’s a list of Duotrope Digest’s “25 Most Slothful Fiction Markets”:
The Slothful
(the markets with the slowest average response times reported)
1. Blackbird (286.8 days)
2. Saint Ann's Review / tsarina (218.2 days)
3. Fence TEMP CLOSED (201.1 days)
4. From the Asylum (200.1 days)
5. Grasslimb Journal (176.8 days)
6. Rambler, The (174.1 days)
7. McSweeney's Quarterly (167.1 days)
8. Public Space, A (166.7 days)
9. Aberrant Dreams TEMP CLOSED (166.1 days)
10. Ascent (163.5 days)
11. Doorways Magazine TEMP CLOSED (156.8 days)
12. Harvard Review (156.6 days)
13. Yale Review (154.5 days)
14. Zoetrope: All-Story (146 days)
15. New Letters (142.9 days)
16. Journal, The (142.2 days)
17. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (141.8 days)
18. Florida Review, The (140.3 days)
19. Boulevard Magazine (139.7 days)
20. Coyote Wild TEMP CLOSED (139.6 days)
21. Ploughshares (137.5 days)
22. Chattahoochee Review (134.5 days)
23. Crab Orchard Review (133.6 days)
24. Gulf Stream TEMP CLOSED (133.3 days)
25. Baltimore Review, The (130.1 days)
Read the full scoop right here…and check out the speediest responders, too. And if you don’t know Duotrope’s, and you send your work out, check it out ASAP! It’s a great, searchable database of journals, updated regularly.
