Reservoir Road Literary Review
Literary Magazine
Stories that examine the truth in the bitterness, in the anti-heroes. Heavy stories full of grit and discomfort that shed sympathetic light on the questionable, the unfavorable. Stories that ask difficult questions, that provide difficult answers.
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Highlights
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 3 months*/Editor reported data67 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: / 2.5%*Chill Subs tracker stats
Pays$5
Find more details in the Genres section
FeeNo
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
What's that?
Expedited submission: When the magazine offers a faster response time for an extra fee
Fiction - 8000 words max
Max words: 8000
Sub Genres: Literary
Payment: $ 5
Fiction - 1000 words max
Max words: 1000
Sub Genres: Literary
Payment: $
Nonfiction
Payment: $
No specific limitations
Nonfiction - 1000 words max
Max words: 1000
Payment: $
Poetry
Max words: 500
Payment: $
Photography
Payment: $
How to submit
Processs
Submittable
Cover letter
Include a cover letter with a short third-person bio.
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
Include your title. Include your prose or poetry submission as a Word doc or PDF. For photography, send a private link or image attachment. Please do not submit work that is publicly available. Include the title of your story and, for prose, page numbers in your manuscript. For prose, format your manuscripts in double-spaced, 12-pt Times New Roman font.
Author's rights
Upon acceptance, Reservoir Road Literary Review requests exclusive digital publication of your work for 90 days from the date of first publication. At that point, you may do with it what you wish, though we ask that you please cite the original publication. We also request indefinite nonexclusive rights so that we may keep your story in our digital archives.
Additional info
Make you feel at home: cozy, meme-friendly, a sense of community, all that stuff Active on social media Pays! $5 Helpful: reposting other opportunities on their Twitter:)
Tracker statistics
46
Total submissions tracked
67 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
3 days
Fastest response time
205 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 641 days, 697 days
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About
We want others to feel the difficulty in a pained existence—to feel the dance between concreteness and ambiguity, between wellness and illness, between acceptance and resistance. To feel what we feel, to feel what others feel who might be unable to express or to share widely what they experience. Th...
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2020
Country
US
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Adrienne Marie Barrios
Editor-in-Chief
Dorian Zimmerman
Editor-in-Chief, Poetry editor
Kavan Stafford
Flash fiction editor
Daniel DeRock
Fiction editor
Barlow Adams
Creative nonfiction editor
Katie Proctor
Social media manager