Rock Salt Journal A New England Literary Magazine 17

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About

Rock Salt Journal exposes what is left unturned. We celebrate the unusual, but also the usual that masks its depth in familiarity. The unexpected erudition of a fishing boat captain; the hidden subtleties of tree trunk carving. Join our escape or bar the doors and pin our eyelids open. Reveal something hidden in plain sight. Give us a world that we can live in for a minute or 20, this or that, known or unknown. Teach us something new. Don’t let us up to breathe until we’ve lost ourselves in your murk and shadows. Fiction, nonfiction, self, other, humor, or deadpan. We welcome it all, as long as it evokes Northern New England. Rocks, waves, pine trees, and highways, cities and sandbars, trawlers, and buses. If a middle-school English teacher could accuse you of writing Northeastern, we’ll trust her hunch. Join us.

Country of Publication & Year Established

United States

Established in 2021

Publication Media & Frequency

Electronic Publication	Electronic Publication	Published 2 x per year.
Print Publication	Print Publication	Published 2 x per year.

Fiction Temp Closed

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: People in a specific region.

Genres:

General

Lengths:

Flash Fiction Flash Fiction	No specific word count limits known (our definition: up to 1000 words).
Short Story Short Story	No specific word count limits known (our definition: 1000 to 7500 words).

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Humorous, Literary.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics, including: Place/Regions (Specific region).

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Submittable submission manager.
Reprints: Unknown.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

Nonfiction Temp Closed

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: People in a specific region.

Lengths:

Essay Essay	No specific word count limits known.
Narrative Nonfiction Narrative Nonfiction	No specific word count limits known.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Humorous, Literary.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics, including: Place/Regions (Specific region).

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Submittable submission manager.
Reprints: Unknown.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

Visual Art Temp Closed

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: People in a specific region.

Lengths:

Artwork

Art Media:

Open to all/most Art Media.

Art Styles:

Open to all/most Art Styles.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics, including: Place/Regions (Specific region).

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Submittable submission manager.
Reprints: Unknown.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Image.

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Rock Salt Journal Submission Statistics — Free Preview!

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Accuracy	We have received 23 reports from 22 different members within the past 12 months. The more responses reported, the more accurate the information.
Days Reported	1 min \| 42.5 mean avg \| 32.0 median \| 151 max days (45.1 std dev)
Responses	95.65 %
Acceptances	17.39 % of submissions accepted (77.5 avg. days per acceptance) \| 18.18 % of submitters accepted Rejections are often underreported, which skews the statistics in favor of acceptances. Most publishers have a lower acceptance rate than indicated here.
Rejections	78.26 % (36.3 avg. days per rejection) \| 11.1 % personal, 55.6 % form, 33.3 % unspecified
Non-Responses	4.35 %
Lost/Returned	-
Never Responded	-
Withdrawals	4.35 % (13.0 avg. days per withdrawal)

Other Information

The editors will try to make a decision within 90 days. (13.0 % of the responses reported to us for this listing have taken longer than 90 days.)
Most submissions are acknowledged on the same day.
Most recent response reported was received on 28 Apr 2024.
Responses have been received for submissions sent as recently as 09 Feb 2024.

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Dates

Last Updated: 02 May 2024
Last Audited: 12 Dec 2023. (We audit each active listing twice a year. Learn more at link.)
Date Added: 06 Dec 2021

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