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"Gordon Square Review is published online biannually to showcase emerging writers nationwide and internationally, award editing mentorships, and provide a venue to spotlight Northeast Ohio writers."
"Gordon Square Review is published online biannually to showcase emerging writers nationwide and internationally, award editing mentorships, and provide a venue to spotlight Northeast Ohio writers."
Vibe
Send us your best but less intimidating
Response Time
Acceptance Rate
Payment
Yes
Fee
No
Simultaneous submissions
Yes
Previously published
No
Expedited response
Yes: $10
Available in print
No
Provides contributor copies
No
Examples online
Yes
Active on social media
Yes
Accepted genres
5 genres
Fiction
Max words: 7500
Max pieces: 1
Flash Fiction
Max words: 1000
Nonfiction
No specific limitations
Flash Nonfiction
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 1
Poetry
Max pieces: 1
Fiction
Max words: 7500
Max pieces: 1
Flash Fiction
Max words: 1000
Nonfiction
No specific limitations
Flash Nonfiction
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 1
Poetry
Max pieces: 1
Statistics
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54
Total submissions tracked
60 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
1 days
Fastest response time
181 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 332 days, 417 days
How to submit
Process
We use Submittable.
Cover letters
We request that no cover letter or author bio be included in your submission.
Eligibility
LGBTQ+ creatorsWomen and other marginalized gendersAll marginalized creatorsCreators w/ disabilities
Formatting
Gordon Square Review is unable to accept print or email submissions. Please contact us, however, if this presents accessibility issues.
Rights for published work
Gordon Square Review requires non-exclusive world English rights and all rights revert to the author on publication.
Additional info
Pays! $10/poem $25/prose They offer editorial mentorship each issue. So if they see promise in your work but it’s not ‘quite there’ they’ll offer to work with you to get it published. Encourages submissions from women, writers of color, writers with disability, LGBTQ writers, and previously unpublished writers. Expedited response. For $10, a Gordon Square Review editor will read, consider, and respond to your submission within seven days.
About the Magazine
Founded in 2017 | United States
Gordon Square Review is published by Literary Cleveland, a nonprofit organization working to nurture a vibrant literary arts community in Northeast Ohio. Literary Cleveland was founded in the Gordon Square Arts District, which serves as the cultural heart of Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood. Gordon Square Review embraces its namesake’s ideals surrounding creativity, artistic exploration, and the value of supporting and celebrating emerging talent.
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 :)
JASON HARRIS
Editor-in-Chief
MATT MITCHELL
Poetry Editor
NARDINE TALEB
Prose Editor
Examples
4 pieces from Chill Subs people
