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"National publication, three issues annually, publishing fiction, poetry, nonfiction, interviews translation, photography, and original art works."

"National publication, three issues annually, publishing fiction, poetry, nonfiction, interviews translation, photography, and original art works."

Vibe

Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok

Response Time

6 months / 74 days

Acceptance Rate

8.7%

  • Payment

    No

  • Fee

    Yes: $3

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    No

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    Yes

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

10 genres

Fiction

Max words: 50000

Fiction, Novellas

Flash Fiction

Max words: 1000

Flash fiction

Nonfiction

We welcome submissions of literary criticism, book reviews of current or forthcoming titles, personal essays, and creative non-fiction. For ...

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

3-5 poems. We seek poetry that is singular in both its vision and voice, regardless of form, style, or content.

Hybrid

Max pieces: 5

We are interested in illustration, collage, comics, and graphic narratives, or any format that expresses an authentic gesture of human emoti...

Review

Max words: 1000

Translation

You can submit 5-6 poems at one time. For prose works, our ideal length is 5 pages. Please include a copy of the original text alongside you...

Art

Max pieces: 5

We are looking for formally inventive black-and-white illustrative portraits. Think of this as a hand-drawn, or hand-painted sketch of someo...

Photography

Max pieces: 5

Additionally we’d love to see your black and white photography that is: experimental in technique, environmental in spirit, but also anythin...

Comics

Max pieces: 5

We are open to graphic narratives, comics, or other works that blur the line between illustration and narrative. Think Persepolis, Habibi, M...

Fiction

Max words: 50000

Fiction, Novellas

Flash Fiction

Max words: 1000

Flash fiction

Nonfiction

We welcome submissions of literary criticism, book reviews of current or forthcoming titles, personal essays, and creative non-fiction. For ...

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

3-5 poems. We seek poetry that is singular in both its vision and voice, regardless of form, style, or content.

Hybrid

Max pieces: 5

We are interested in illustration, collage, comics, and graphic narratives, or any format that expresses an authentic gesture of human emoti...

Review

Max words: 1000

Translation

You can submit 5-6 poems at one time. For prose works, our ideal length is 5 pages. Please include a copy of the original text alongside you...

Art

Max pieces: 5

We are looking for formally inventive black-and-white illustrative portraits. Think of this as a hand-drawn, or hand-painted sketch of someo...

Photography

Max pieces: 5

Additionally we’d love to see your black and white photography that is: experimental in technique, environmental in spirit, but also anythin...

Comics

Max pieces: 5

We are open to graphic narratives, comics, or other works that blur the line between illustration and narrative. Think Persepolis, Habibi, M...

Statistics

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Track submission

38

Total submissions tracked

74 days

Average response time

8.7%

Average acceptance rate

1 days

Fastest response time

144 days

Slowest response time

How to submit

Process

We use Submittable.

Cover letters

Cover letters are optional. We’re happy to read submissions blindly. However, we do like establishing relationships with our community and getting to know you over the course of your writing career, and if you send us a cover letter that helps us get to know you. In terms of what to include, think of your cover letter as our editors’ introduction to you and your work. Tell us where you’re from, your schooling (if applicable), job situation, your favorite writers, any publications, your favorite books.

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

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

Rights for published work

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

Additional info

Submission fee: $3 Payment: some issues yes, some issues no, depending on availability of budget

About the Magazine

Founded in 1957 | United States

Publishing the Frontier of American Letters Since 1957. Northwest Review was first published by the University of Oregon in 1957. The inaugural issue sold for fifty cents and included Oregonian Ken Kesey’s first publication, a short story called “The First Sunday in September.” In its fifty-four year history, the University of Oregon’s Northwest Review published multiple winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Since its new inception in Fall 2020, Northwest Review contributors have been Pushcart nominees, Best American Short Story winners, New York Times bestsellers, longlisted for the National Book Awards, the Pen Faulkner Award, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and recipients of Stegner Fellowships in poetry and fiction. Alexis Sears’ poem “Hair Sestina,” which appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of Northwest Review, will be published in the 2022 Best American Poetry Series.

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 :)

S. Tremaine Nelson

Editor-in-Chief

Brian Michael Murphy

Managing Editor & Nonfiction Editor

Samantha DeWys

Production & Design Director

Clare Maloney

Executive Editor