Blue Lake Review
Literary Magazine
Our goal is to bring compelling, meaningful, insightful fiction and poetry to you on a regular basis. Something you can ponder and gnaw on. Something to bring light, or at least, growth and understanding to our readers.
Highlights
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 2-3 months*Editor reported data
- Acceptance rate: 5% *Editor reported data
PaysNo
FeeNo
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
From the editors
We prefer work previously unpublished elsewhere, but will consider work previously published at least a year before your submission to Blue Lake Review.
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
What's that?
Expedited submission: When the magazine offers a faster response time for an extra fee
Fiction - 6000 words max
Max words: 100
Max words: 6000
Sub Genres: Literary
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
How to submit
Processs
Submittable
Cover letter
Please include a short third person bio in the submission manager cover letter, as well as the word count for your piece.
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
Please avoid the excessive use of italics as overuse diminishes the effect of italicized text; and our submission manager has trouble keeping such text at the appropriate font size!
Author's rights
We retain one time rights for electronic publication of your work after which the rights revert back to you, the author.
Additional info
We publish online only, every other month. We can't accept all submissions given the limited space available in our journal, so we may be required to turn down some good pieces. Do not take it personally. Unfortunately, it's part of the process. And this is not a science; there is a lot of subjectivity in the selection process. Please do not send additional submissions before we have responded to your last submission. If we've declined a submission of yours please wait at least a month before submitting again.
Tracker statistics
32
Total submissions tracked
38 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
7 days
Fastest response time
141 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 3969 days
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Submission calls
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About
No frivolous pieces here. Your time is too valuable. We're serious about our words, and are selective in what we present to you, sifting through the mountains of words to pull out the diamonds. We bring you our best. And if you're a writer, send us your best. We hope you enjoy the great new Blue ...
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2010
Country
US
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Editor-in-Chief
Diana May-Waldman
Poetry Editor
Mitchell Waldman
Fiction Editor