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PrologueThe spreadsheet

Every submission is a letter sent into the dark.

For four hundred years, the wait for a reply has looked exactly like this. You send the work. You keep a record. You check the mail. Somewhere between the eleven magazines, the three grants, and the spreadsheet you're afraid to open, the record of your own work stops being yours.

Metsu, Man Writing a Letter
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Sent
The moment it leaves your desk, Missa starts watching. You go write the next thing.
SentI
WaitingII
AnsweredIII
No. ISent, and tracked

Know where every piece stands, without opening a spreadsheet.

Submissions, Spring 2026 updated 2 min ago · by Missa
Blue RoomPloughsharessent Mar 4 IN REVIEW · day 34 of ~90
After the RainTin Housesent Feb 2 ACCEPTED
Glass HouseNorth River Reviewsent Feb 12 WITHDRAWN · taken elsewhere
The OrchardKenyon Reviewsent Apr 1 SUBMITTED · reply ~Jun 20
Tin House <editors@>Gmail · 2m
"We are pleased to inform you…"
→ row updated · ACCEPTED · next steps created

Missa read the reply and updated the row. You did nothing.

Vermeer, Woman in Blue Reading a Letter
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Waiting
The silence after you submit has a shape. Missa learns each market's rhythm and tells you when waiting is still normal, and when it isn't.
SentI
WaitingII
AnsweredIII
No. IIExpected response

Know when to stop worrying, without emailing to ask.

Missa learns each market's rhythm from thousands of tracked replies, so you know whether the silence is normal or worth a follow-up.

Expected response
You'll probably hear back late March to mid-April.
sent Mar 4day 34 · you are here~day 90
Medium confidence · based on 126 tracked responses
&Alerts

Catch a moved deadline, without refreshing their site.

Missa rechecks the source page of every call you've saved, and tells you the moment a deadline, fee, or eligibility rule changes, with the receipt to prove it.

Alerts · this week
Deadline extended: North River Review moved March 1 to March 15.
verified from source page · checked 4h ago
The average literary magazine replies in 74 days.
Missa waits with you.*
* median of 12,400 replies tracked by writers on Missa
Metsu, Woman Reading a Letter
III
Answered
When the reply finally comes, yes, no, or revise, Missa files it, frees the work, and sets up whatever happens next.
SentI
WaitingII
AnsweredIII
No. IIIDecisions, down to the poem

A packet of five poems gets five answers.

Real submissions aren't accept-or-reject. One poem is taken, one is held, one you withdrew last week. Missa tracks the fate of every piece inside every packet, without you losing the thread on any of them.

After the Rain
DECLINED
Blue Room
ACCEPTED ✓
The Orchard
DECLINED
Late Winter
WITHDRAWN
Glass House
DECLINED

Poetry packet to North River Review. One yes is all it takes.

I found out I was accepted from Missa before I found the email. It had already updated the packet and flagged that the other four magazines still had the poem.
Priya Nathan, poet · 3 acceptances tracked this spring
Eleven years of submissions lived in a spreadsheet I was afraid to open. Missa imported all 148 rows in under a minute. It felt like getting my own career back.
Daniel Okafor, essayist · 148 submissions imported
14,203 submissions tracked · 312 acceptances this month · 2,481 deadlines caught before they passed
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THE DEAL

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You'll never pay to track your own work, see your own history, or find out you were accepted. Your tracker is private. No organization sees where else you've submitted, ever.

Organizations pay to run their open calls on Missa. You are the network, not the product. Everything you put in, you can export and take with you.

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FAQ

Is Missa actually free, or is there a catch?
Free means free. You will never pay to track your work, see your own history, or get a reminder. Organizations pay to run their open calls here. That is the whole model.
Can an organization see where else I have submitted?
No. Your tracker is private. An organization only ever sees what you send them directly, never your history anywhere else, unless you choose to share it.
What happens to my data if I stop using Missa?
You can export everything, anytime, in one click: works, history, notes, all of it. Nothing is held hostage.
How does Missa know a call is still open?
Missa checks the source page of every call directly and shows you when it last confirmed the details, so you are never working from a stale listing.
Does this replace what my organization already uses?
If your organization runs open calls, Missa can run intake, review, decisions, and delivery in one place. If they use something else, your tracker still works on its own.
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Import your spreadsheet, forward one email, or just start browsing. Your calendar fills in from there.

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