Open for submissions
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Breakwater Review was founded in 2009 and is run by students of the University of Massachusetts Boston MFA program. We publish digitally two times a year.
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Send us your best but less intimidating
Response Time
Average acceptance rate
Types of Submissions Accepted
Fiction
Max pieces: 5000
If you have multiple short pieces for prose (fiction and creative nonfiction), please include them in one document with the word count for each piece at the top of the respective piece's opening page.
Nonfiction
Max words: 5000
If you have multiple short pieces for prose (fiction and creative nonfiction), please include them in one document with the word count for each piece at the top of the respective piece's opening page.
Poetry
Max pieces: 3
Art
Hand-drawn illustration Painted prints Photography Mixed Media Digital Compositions
Photography
To ensure high-quality viewing, we ask that images be sized so that at least one dimension meets or exceeds 1000px. at 72ppi.
Fiction
Max pieces: 5000
If you have multiple short pieces for prose (fiction and creative nonfiction), please include them in one document with the word count for each piece at the top of the respective piece's opening page.
Nonfiction
Max words: 5000
If you have multiple short pieces for prose (fiction and creative nonfiction), please include them in one document with the word count for each piece at the top of the respective piece's opening page.
Poetry
Max pieces: 3
Art
Hand-drawn illustration Painted prints Photography Mixed Media Digital Compositions
Need to know for submitting
Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox
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Details
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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 🏗️
Magazine
Founded in 2009 | 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 :)
Jonny Lipshin
Editor-in-Chief
Leanne Ma
Editor
Jonathan Smith
Editor
Haley Cohen
Editor
Katee Fletcher
Editor
Ann Wilberton
Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)
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