If you write poems, short stories, or essays, you already know the bookkeeping problem: a single piece can be out to six magazines at once, each with its own response window, and the moment one says yes you owe the rest a withdrawal. SubLog is a free, private tracker built for exactly that.
Open SubLog — it's free →Most literary magazines allow simultaneous submissions but ask you to withdraw immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. A scattered spreadsheet makes that risky — you forget which pieces are where, miss a withdrawal, and burn a relationship with an editor. In SubLog, every work shows exactly how many submissions are still out, so a single acceptance tells you at a glance who else needs a withdrawal note.
"How long does this market take to respond?" is the question Submission Grinder users obsess over. SubLog records the date you submitted and the date a reply landed, then shows your average response time across everything you've heard back on. Over a year of submitting, that number tells you when a piece is genuinely overdue versus simply slow — and when it's polite to nudge.
Once you've logged a season of submissions, SubLog computes your acceptance rate from the pieces that actually got a decision, separates form rejections from personal ones, and flags your longest-pending submission. That's the honest feedback loop that turns scattershot submitting into a strategy: more places, better-fit markets, fewer pieces left languishing.