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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
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Acceptance Rate
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
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Total submissions tracked
300 days
Average response time
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
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