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"The Gateway Review publishes surrealist, fabulist, and magic realist fiction and poetry, as well as nonfiction about the art of writing the same. "

"The Gateway Review publishes surrealist, fabulist, and magic realist fiction and poetry, as well as nonfiction about the art of writing the same. "

Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time

3-4 months / 535 days

Acceptance Rate

11.11%

  • Payment

    Yes

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    No

  • Expedited response

    Yes: $3

  • Available in print

    Yes

  • Provides contributor copies

    Yes: yes, inside US

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    No

Accepted genres

3 genres

Fiction

Max words: 4000

Max pieces: 1

Flash Nonfiction

Max words: 1000

Poetry

Max lines: 40

Max pieces: 1

Fiction

Max words: 4000

Max pieces: 1

Flash Nonfiction

Max words: 1000

Poetry

Max lines: 40

Max pieces: 1

Statistics

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Track submission

16

Total submissions tracked

535 days

Average response time

11.11%

Average acceptance rate

118 days

Fastest response time

952 days

Slowest response time

How to submit

Process

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Cover letters

Coming soon! Advice from editors on what your cover letter and bio should look like!

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

As far as formatting goes, please follow industry standards: contact information on the first page along with word count, with your last name and page numbers on subsequent pages. No frills please—fancy borders and colored and non-traditional fonts will do nothing but draw negative attention to your work; 12-point Times New Roman is always a good way to go. Work that is not double-spaced will be rejected immediately.

Rights for published work

We ask for First North American Serial rights, and all copyright remains with the author; we simply ask that, should your work be published again elsewhere that The Gateway Review be acknowledged as the original publisher. While not required, we’d love to know about reprints of your work, and will happily advertise them on our blog if you let us know–this goes for reprints in journals as well as (and especially in the case of) publications of collections of work where your stories published first with us will appear. Please keep in touch!

Additional info

We are particularly interested in work by LGBTQ+ writers, Black writers, other writers of color, and any writer from a historically marginalized, minoritized group. Expedited Submissions: For a $3.00 fee, writers can submit any of the materials outlined in the Regular Submissions category and receive a response in thirty days or less. We usually respond to these submissions in November or December, after the close of our reading period. Work that is not double-spaced will be rejected immediately. Please include a brief cover letter on the Submittable site, but do not do so in your actual manuscript. We are fans of actual letters, not just copied-and-pasted bios. Payment. At this time, we will offer one writer per issue an “Editor’s Choice” award of $15 (USD). Copies. Contributors from the United States will receive one contributor copy of the issue in which their work appears.

About the Magazine

Founded in 2015 | United States

Founded in 2015, The Gateway Review: a Journal of Magical Realism began as an independent biannual print literary journal featuring the best contemporary magical realism, surrealism, and new fabulism written by new and emerging, along with established and seasoned, writers. Starting in the summer of 2020, The Gateway Review will transition to a print annual (with periodic online features) that will publish in December of each year.

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 :)

Joe Baumann

Editor-in-Chief