The Cardiff Review
Literary Magazine
The Cardiff Review is an international literary magazine with equal parts Welsh and Canadian roots, publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, criticism, interviews, and more.
Highlights
This magazine may have some eligibility requirements
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- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 3 months*Editor reported data
- Acceptance rate: ?
PaysNo
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 - 5000 words max
Max words: 1500
Max words: 5000
Max pieces: 1
Fiction - 500 words max
Max words: 500
Max pieces: 1
Nonfiction - 5000 words max
Max words: 1500
Max words: 5000
Max pieces: 1
Poetry
Max lines: 50
Max pieces: 2
Art
Min pieces: 3
Max pieces: 5
Photography
Min pieces: 3
Max pieces: 5
Review
No specific limitations
How to submit
Processs
Submittable
Cover letter
A short bio, that includes relevant social media handles, in the body of your email is recommended, as it will be included with the piece should it be chosen for publication. We encourage you to also include the following in your email submission if applicable, though it is not required:
Eligibility
We encourage writers who identify as LGBTQIA+ to mark their submission as eligible for Queerly Lit, our series featuring queer writers and writing. Details are available within our open calls on Submittable.Formatting
.doc (.docx) preferred
Author's rights
Writers maintain copyright to their work. The Cardiff Review is granted first serial rights and acknowledgement should the work be published elsewhere in the future.
Additional info
Tracker statistics
40
Total submissions tracked
78 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
0 days
Fastest response time
136 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 232 days
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About
The Cardiff Review is an international literary magazine. Founded in 2015 by four graduate students of Cardiff University’s MA in Creative Writing program, The Review‘s first iteration was a digital magazine that published three issues. For the magazine’s fourth issue, Summer 2016, we transitioned t...
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2015
Country
GB
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Jamie Gillingham
Editor-in-Chief
Christina Thatcher
Poetry Editor