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"Barely South Review began as The Dominion Review, an annual student literary journal housed at Old Dominion University in 1983. In 2008, the journal relaunched under the name Barely South Review as an online biannual publication staffed by students of the MFA program."
Introduction
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Response Time
52 days
Average acceptance rate
7.32%

Need to know for submitting

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      Simultaneous submissions

      Yes

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      Previously published

      No

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      Payment

      No

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      Fee

      No

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      Expedited response

      No

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      Available in print

      No

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      Provide contributor copies

      No

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      Examples online

      Yes

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      Active on social media

      Yes

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    Important stuff

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    How to submit 🏗️

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    Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️

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    Awards

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    Demographics & Eligibility

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    Formatting requirements 🏗️

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    Rights for published work 🏗️

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Types of Submissions Accepted

5 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Fiction

Max words: 4000

Max pieces: 1

Flash rules

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 3

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Nonfiction

Max words: 4000

Max pieces: 1

Creative Nonfiction: 1 essay (not to exceed 4000 words). Excerpts from longer works are acceptable as long as they adhere to our word maximum and can stand alone as essays independent of the larger work.

Flash rules

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 3

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Art

Max pieces: 5

Art submissions, including photography, painting, graphics, and comics, will be considered for the cover of Barely South Review.

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Poetry

Max pieces: 5

We will cap Poetry submissions at 300.

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Photography

Max pieces: 5

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Fiction

Max words: 4000

Max pieces: 1

Flash rules

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 3

nonfiction genre icon

Nonfiction

Max words: 4000

Max pieces: 1

Creative Nonfiction: 1 essay (not to exceed 4000 words). Excerpts from longer works are acceptable as long as they adhere to our word maximum and can stand alone as essays independent of the larger work.

Flash rules

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 3

art genre icon

Art

Max pieces: 5

Art submissions, including photography, painting, graphics, and comics, will be considered for the cover of Barely South Review.

poetry genre icon

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

We will cap Poetry submissions at 300.

Magazine

Founded in 1983 | United States

Masthead

We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)

Serenity Marshall
Editor-in-Chief
Tope Larayetan
Poetry Editor
Quentin Steadman
Fiction Editor
Veni Fields
Nonfiction Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

62

Average acceptance rate

7.32%

Average response time

52 days

Average acceptance/rejection time

178/52 days

Fastest response time

29 days

Slowest response time

90 days

Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 168 days, 187 days