An online literary and arts journal produced by graduate students in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Louisiana State University

Since 1984, NDR has published the work of emerging and established writers. Each issue includes original fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, reviews, interviews, and artwork. In our 30 years of publication, authors of international renown — Anne Carson, Patricia Smith, Robert Olen Butler, Rosmarie Waldrop, Carmen Giménez Smith, J. Robert Lennon and Alissa Nutting, to name a few — have shared our pages with tomorrow’s literary stars. Our contributors are regularly included in anthologies such as Best American Short Stories, New Stories from the South, and Best American Poetry.

As a journal we are committed to publishing underrepresented voices, and aim to foster diversity in our issues. Although we ask for a small fee for our general submissions, this fee helps us sustain and extend this practice into our community by hosting and supporting readings and other literary events.

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New Delta Review

General call

We welcome poems that challenge traditional notions of lyricism... or avoid the lyric altogether. Stricter forms are fine, but we tend to prefer them corrupted. Embrace the bizarre, the political, the radical, but do so with purpose. Please send no more than five poems. 

Simultaneous Submissions: All good! BUT if your piece is accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible.

Poetry

We welcome essays with compelling emotional resonance and distinctive, effective command of voice. Experiments in form and structure that feel urgent, necessary and inextricable to the content make our brains tingle, and we get excited over excellently executed traditional narrative. Bring us your lyricism, your breaks in form, your reclaiming histories, your deepest inquiries — all topics fair game.

Write from personal experience or not, but please note we do not accept essays that amount to voyeurism of/parachuting into marginalized cultures by authors from Western backgrounds, or essays rooted in the dehumanization of marginalized peoples. We do accept essays that engage with current events, so long as they are relatively evergreen, given that our publication process lasts roughly three months.

For longform submissions, we prefer essays around 3,000 words or less, though we may occasionally publish a longer piece. For flash submissions, send up to three essays of no more than 1,000 words each.

Simultaneous Submissions: All good! BUT if your piece is accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible.

We welcome fiction of all forms, from short stories and flash fiction to nonlinear anomalies. While we tend toward the “weird,” our aesthetic is always in flux. Plot or no plot, satire or soul-crushing romance, all we ask is that you keep us turning the page. The best way to understand our vibe is to read one of our issues.

Please submit one short story—we rarely publish pieces over 4,000 words. If you're writing flash fiction, send up to three stories of no more than 1,500 words each.

Simultaneous Submissions: All good! BUT if your piece is accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible.

Fee-Free for BIPOC

New Delta Review is thrilled to announce our 15th annual Chapbook Competition. For this contest, we're looking for manuscripts of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or hybrid work. We’re interested in works that have some cohesion to them. We like things that are compelling and hold our attention. In the past, we've tended towards accepting things that challenge our ideas of tradition, but any aesthetic choices are fair game and will be considered.
Entry Fee: $10
Eligibility:
Manuscripts should be 20-35 pages in length and should include a title page with contact information. The title page and table of contents will not be included in the page count.
All submissions must be made as .pdf, .doc., or .docx, through Submittable.
We are only accepting works written primarily in English. We are not accepting translations.
While individual pieces within the manuscript may be published elsewhere, the manuscript must be unpublished as a whole. If individual pieces have been published, writers can include an acknowledgments page at the end of the manuscript, which will not count toward the 20-35 page limit.
Multiple submissions are allowed but require separate entry fees. Simultaneous submissions are welcome on the condition that writers notify New Delta Review of another acceptance as soon as possible.
Current students and faculty of LSU are ineligible.
Grand Prize:
Publication of chapbook, 25 author copies, and a feature in an upcoming issue of New Delta Review
$250
Final Judge: Diana Khoi Nguyen

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