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"Harvard Review publishes new poetry, essays, fiction, drama, criticism, book reviews, and interviews."

"Harvard Review publishes new poetry, essays, fiction, drama, criticism, book reviews, and interviews."

Vibe

Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok

Response Time

6 months / 300 days

Acceptance Rate

0%

  • Payment

    No

  • Fee

    Yes: $3

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    No

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    Yes

  • Provides contributor copies

    Yes: Two contributors' copies for print publication; none for online publication.

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

5 genres

Fiction

Max words: 5000

Nonfiction

Max words: 5000

creative nonfiction

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

Review

Max words: 5000

book reviews

Play

No specific limitations

Fiction

Max words: 5000

Nonfiction

Max words: 5000

creative nonfiction

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

Review

Max words: 5000

book reviews

Play

No specific limitations

Statistics

We're able to provide them because you use our tracker!
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Track submission

46

Total submissions tracked

300 days

Average response time

0%

Average acceptance rate

64 days

Fastest response time

956 days

Slowest response time

How to submit

Process

We use Submittable and mail.

Cover letters

This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

Manuscripts must be paginated and clearly labeled with the author’s name on every page. Please submit no more than 5 poems or 7,000 words of prose. Do not send the only copy of your work as we do not accept responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts.

Rights for published work

This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.

Additional info

Fee: $3, but they'll waive it if you notify them that the fee presents a hardship. Payment: Two contributors' copies for print publication; none for online publication

About the Magazine

Founded in 1992 | United States

From its beginnings, the journal has been committed to showcasing the work of emerging writers alongside established voices, or, as we like to think of it, publishing writers who will be famous next to writers who already are. Over the years we have published a number of important writers at an early stage of their careers, including Nam Le, Mary Ruefle, Jhumpa Lahiri, Carl Phillips, David Foster Wallace, and Mary Karr. Some of the authors we have debuted include Paul Harding, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2010; Ben Shattuck, whose first published story was selected for PEN America’s Best Debut Short Stories in 2017; Moira McCavana, whose debut story was published in the O. Henry Prize Stories Anthology in 2018, and Charles Yu, winner of the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. Editorially, we are interested in literary technique and agnostic when it comes to subject matter; we take each piece on its merits and seek a diversity of voices. We look for evidence of control, polish, deliberateness, authority and for work that strikes us as realizing its own ambitions, whatever those may be. In terms of design, the magazine draws on the aesthetic of the 1960s Black Sparrow Press, foregrounding typography and color and employing only abstract elements. We print on uncoated cover stock for a tactile feel and design our covers in thematically related pairs. Our cover designs by Alex Camlin have been repeatedly honored in PRINT magazine’s Regional Design Annual. In print, we publish poetry, short stories, essays, and visual art; online, in addition to these genres, we also publish translations, interviews, criticism, and book reviews. Contributors to Harvard Review are regularly selected for Best American anthologies, The O. Henry Prize Stories and the Pushcart Prize Anthology.

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 :)

CHRISTINA THOMPSON

Editor-in-Chief

CHLOE GARCIA ROBERTS

Deputy Editor

Examples

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