The Gateway Review

How to submit

• Process

  Submittable

• Cover letter

  No cover letter advice

• Eligibility

  Other
  We are particularly interested in work by LGBTQ+ writers, Black writers, other writers of color, and any writer from a historically marginalized, minoritized group.

• 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.

• Author's rights

  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.