Benjamin Davis

co-founder @chillsubs.

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THE RESULTS ARE IN 🏆
Meet the winners of our 3rd annual Best Lit Mag Awards!
https://t.co/bjmn1KGqiu

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Please pick a number from 2-8161 (we need 16 numbers)

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Our Best Lit Mags of 2025 Voting has CLOSED

- We had 8,160 people participate.
- 2,282 lit mags were nominated.
- 13,884 votes were cast.

Wow!

Winners will be announced next week. Thank you for everyone who participated. You’re all amazing.

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It’s back 😏

Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️

https://t.co/0We9TGPHmY

Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!

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What is the best time to have an online event on a week night? (EST)

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Wowwweee over 3000 of you have already have joined First Draft November 🥲

Our free 30-day challenge where we write 50,000 words of our first drafts, side by side.

We have so many festivities planned friends. Come join? (Link in bio)

#writing #writingcommunity #writers

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Because rejection letters are so cryptic that we summoned an expert to decode them.

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It’s the spooky-ooky season and we’ve got a treat for you 👀 Bloodletter Magazine is extending their submission deadline by a week! (Because we all know that writers are soooo good at hitting deadlines…)

https://t.co/s2pGsgtxCu

#writing #writingcommunity #litmags

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These award-winning lit mags would be a crown jewel in any writer's bio *wink*

Submit to them here: https://t.co/BquRg454m3

#writing #writingcommunity

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I'm writing/developing an essay/class on writing synopsises for @chillsubs' forever class, so what questions do you have about this document, or what elements should I cover?

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I think that covers all our bases. Probably.

Submit here: https://t.co/l76iYRdueN

Featured in this list:
@PhoebeJournal
@moonrabbitcandy
@thimblelitmag
@BLReview
@BennReview
@Image_Journal
@ecotheo

#writing #writingcommunity

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Are you:
- Applying to MFA programs?
- Curious about how an MFA can support your goals?
- Baffled by what to include in an MFA application?

Join U of Alabama MFA in Creative Writing faculty members John Estes and Brooke Champagne on Oct 30 for an AMA!

https://t.co/XPR7YiUUGe

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Join our Discord!

Writing is often a solo project, but that doesn’t mean writers have to be on their own. So we made a place for the Chill Subs community to, well, chill.

Read about it here: https://t.co/nc1XMq43e4

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Okay, but don’t actually give up, because we have Raging Against the State of the Publishing World at 9am tomorrow. Maybe we could do brunch after?

#writingcommunity #writingmemes

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I've rewritten this caption 5x.
If you can relate, you'll love these places as much as we do.

Find the list here: https://t.co/gCLRgelauI

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Will you get an agent? Who knows. Will you sound important at parties? Absolutely.

No database exists for agents’ reading habits, so we did this the hard way—by asking every agent, editor, and writing-adjacent human we could.

Submit here: https://t.co/vRtDIYmZqL

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Introducing the Chill Subs Affiliate Program: get paid for doing what you're already doing—spreading the word.

Read all about it here: https://t.co/knIexunJ4f

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Our new 💡Smart Search💡 is about to make finding magazines way faster, and here's how:

- See magazines instantly (with their open/closed status in the dropdown)
- Apply filters as tags to narrow down listings by genre, country, keywords, and more!

https://t.co/wGssLkpPNs

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It’s always hard to start up a new lit mag and get momentum, but we think these folks have cracked the code 💥💪 Here’s 10 amazing places to submit if you want to support publications that are coming into the spotlight!

https://t.co/MkB1AOaPyu

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