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Guidelines

"The Brooklyn Review was founded almost thirty years ago and is run by the students and faculty of the Brooklyn College MFA Program. We publish our print issue in the spring and digital content throughout the year."

"The Brooklyn Review was founded almost thirty years ago and is run by the students and faculty of the Brooklyn College MFA Program. We publish our print issue in the spring and digital content throughout the year."

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Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time

160 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

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

6 genres

Fiction

Max words: 7000

Max pieces: 1

Nonfiction

Max words: 3500

Max pieces: 1

We love writing that merges into memoir, poetry, fiction, lyric, or dramas, and we love personal essays, as well as narratives about travel,...

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

Art

Max pieces: 5

Drawings, paintings, comics, multimedia, and digital art.

Photography

Max pieces: 5

Play

20 pages max

Fiction

Max words: 7000

Max pieces: 1

Nonfiction

Max words: 3500

Max pieces: 1

We love writing that merges into memoir, poetry, fiction, lyric, or dramas, and we love personal essays, as well as narratives about travel,...

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

Art

Max pieces: 5

Drawings, paintings, comics, multimedia, and digital art.

Photography

Max pieces: 5

Play

20 pages max

Statistics

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Track submission

14

Total submissions tracked

160 days

Average response time

0%

Average acceptance rate

150 days

Fastest response time

170 days

Slowest response time

How to submit

Process

Please submit via our Submittable page. If the fee presents a barrier, please feel free to get in touch through our contact form.

Cover letters

Please include a short bio in your cover letter.

Eligibility

Creators from a specific location / ethnic group

Formatting

Please format and submit your work in a single document.

Rights for published work

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

Additional info

Please submit only one work per reading period in any given genre. We are particularly interested in featuring BIPOC voices and perspectives.

About the Magazine

Founded in 1994 | United States

In the past, we have published works by Allen Ginsberg, Paul Beatty, Eileen Myles, Helen Phillips, Wayne Koestenbaum, Mac Wellman, Young Jean Lee, Lisa Ko, Ann Lauterbach, and Tommy Pico, among others. Stories appearing in our pages have won awards, including the PEN / Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize, and the poems have been anthologized in the 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 :)

Terrence Arjoon

Editor-in-Chief

Cassidy McFadzean

Editor-in-Chief