Log every piece you send out: which literary magazine or contest, when, what it cost, and what came back. Pick markets straight from our database of 250+ contests and magazines, or click Track this on any market listing. Sign in free with your email to sync across devices and unlock community response times.
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Sign in free with an email link to keep your submissions safe across your laptop and phone. When a magazine or contest replies, record the outcome to help unlock community response times and acceptance rates (shown once 5 independent writers report).
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Works immediately in your browser, with optional free email sign-in to sync across devices. Community response-time and acceptance stats are only shown once at least 5 independent writers report an outcome for a market.
Most literary magazines and contests accept simultaneous submissions, but the etiquette has one hard rule: the moment a piece is accepted somewhere, you withdraw it everywhere else, immediately and politely. You cannot do that if you do not know where the piece is. A tracker turns "I think I sent that story to four places last spring" into a list you can act on in two minutes, which protects your reputation with editors you will want to submit to again.
Tracking also keeps your expectations calibrated. Literary magazines commonly take one to six months to respond, and many now say "if you have not heard from us in six months, consider it a pass." Contests usually announce results weeks or months after the deadline closes. Agents often respond to queries in four to eight weeks, if at all. Set a response-expected date on each entry and you will know when a follow-up query is fair game and when a silent market has earned a "no response" and the piece is free to go back out.
There is a money angle too. Contest fees of five to twenty dollars feel small one at a time and add up fast across a season. Logging the fee on each entry shows you what your submission habit actually costs, so you can weigh it against free-entry contests and fee-free magazines. Ourwriting contests list flags free-entry competitions, and contests open right nowshows what is currently accepting entries, sorted by deadline.
By default, everything you type into this tracker is stored in your browser's local storage on your own device. If you want your submission list on both your laptop and your phone, enter your email at the top of the tracker to receive a free one-click sign-in link. Once signed in, your submissions sync automatically to your account, and you can still export CSV or JSON backups whenever you like.
When a magazine or contest replies and you mark a submission as Accepted, Rejected, or No response with a reply date, your outcome is counted toward that market's community response time and acceptance rate. To protect every writer's privacy, individual submissions are never shown publicly, and aggregate market statistics (median reply days and acceptance percentage) are hidden until at least 5 independent writers have reported an outcome for that magazine or contest.
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