A Nashville-based national magazine of literary arts, faith and culture. 

The climate of literary journals has long been dominated by the white male gaze, and Belmont Story Review is committed to publishing stories, poetry, and essays that are inclusive of a diversity of opinions and represent typically underrepresented populations.

Through our editorial discernment, we seek to accept work from typically under-represented groups, whether this is BIPOC, LGTBQIA, ELL or other writers, dreamers, and thinkers.

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Belmont Story Review

Belmont Story Review Volume 11 will publish in Fall 2026.  We attempt to inform our submitters of their status by April 2026, often much sooner as we engage in rolling rejections. Your submission will be considered for print and online publication. We pay contributors $100/work of prose and 1 free print copy.
Only contributors able to receive payment via paper check in the U.S. or Canada can be paid (have a social security number and can fill out a W9), others agree automatically by submitting that their location outside the U.S. or Canada does not guarantee them pay other than 3 in-kind copies of the issue in which they are printed, should they be selected for a print volume.

     We ask that fiction authors submit only ONE piece per category (Choose one, fiction or nonfiction, submitting a total of one piece).  Your submission should be in Times, size 12, and double spaced. We look for fiction and nonfiction of 12,000 words or less.
 
      Within your submission, please include cover page with a brief author bio. If applicable, include the following in your bio:

  Major publications and awards
  Any association or past correspondence with a guest or staff editor
  Past publications in BSR

Fiction

Belmont Story Review Volume 10 will publish in Fall 2026.  We attempt to inform our submitters of their status by April 2026, often much sooner as we engage in rolling rejections. Your submission will be considered for print and online publication. 
We pay contributors $50 per poem and 1 free print copy.
Only contributors able to receive payment via paper check in the U.S. or Canada (have a social security number and can fill out a W9) can be paid, others agree automatically by submitting that their location outside the U.S. or Canada does not guarantee them pay other than 3 in-kind copies of the issue in which they are printed, should they be selected for a print volume.

      We ask that poetry authors submit up to five poems and no more in a single document. Your submission should be in size 12 font.  Submitters to BSR may only submit in one category per reading period-- poetry, fiction or nonfiction.
 
      Within your submission, please include cover page with a brief author bio. If applicable, include the following in your bio:
 

  Major publications and awards
  Any association or past correspondence with a guest or staff editor
  Past publications in BSR

Poetry

Belmont Story Review Volume 11 will publish in Fall 2026.  We attempt to inform our submitters of their status by April 2026, often much sooner as we engage in rolling rejections. Your submission will be considered for print and online publication. We pay contributors $100/work of prose and 1 free print copy. 
Only contributors able to receive payment via paper check in the U.S. or Canada (have a social security number and can fill out a W9) can be paid, others agree automatically by submitting that their location outside the U.S. or Canada does not guarantee them pay other than 3 in-kind copies of the issue in which they are printed, should they be selected for a print volume.

    We ask that nonfiction authors submit only ONE piece per category (Choose one, fiction or nonfiction, submitting a total of one piece).  Your submission should be in size 12 and double spaced. We look for fiction and nonfiction of 12,000 words or less.
 
    Within your submission, please include cover page with a brief author bio. If applicable, include the following in your bio:
 
 

  Major publications and awards
  Any association or past correspondence with a guest or staff editor
  Past publications in BSR

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