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Deadline

Feb 1, 2024

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"This award-winning literary magazine is edited by undergraduates and issued annually. It includes short works of fiction and nonfiction, poetry, photography, and artwork by students, as well as works contributed from outside Emerson College."

"This award-winning literary magazine is edited by undergraduates and issued annually. It includes short works of fiction and nonfiction, poetry, photography, and artwork by students, as well as works contributed from outside Emerson College."

Vibe

Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok

Response Time

Two months / 22 days

Acceptance Rate

2.5%

  • Payment

    Yes

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    No

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    Yes

  • Provides contributor copies

    Yes: yes

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

6 genres

Fiction

Max words: 5000

Max pieces: 1

Fiction 5000 words max. Submit no more than one story or three flash fiction pieces at one time.

Micro Fiction

Max words: 300

Max pieces: 3

We also accept flash fiction (fiction pieces that are 300 words or shorter).

Nonfiction

Max words: 5000

Max pieces: 1

personal essay, memoir

Poetry

Max pieces: 3

We accept all kinds of poems but have a special place in our hearts for narrative poetry, prose poetry, and form poetry with a contemporary ...

Art

Max pieces: 5

All kinds of 2D visual artwork, including photography, paintings, and digital art.

Photography

Max pieces: 5

Fiction

Max words: 5000

Max pieces: 1

Fiction 5000 words max. Submit no more than one story or three flash fiction pieces at one time.

Micro Fiction

Max words: 300

Max pieces: 3

We also accept flash fiction (fiction pieces that are 300 words or shorter).

Nonfiction

Max words: 5000

Max pieces: 1

personal essay, memoir

Poetry

Max pieces: 3

We accept all kinds of poems but have a special place in our hearts for narrative poetry, prose poetry, and form poetry with a contemporary ...

Art

Max pieces: 5

All kinds of 2D visual artwork, including photography, paintings, and digital art.

Photography

Max pieces: 5

Statistics

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Track submission

64

Total submissions tracked

22 days

Average response time

2.5%

Average acceptance rate

6 days

Fastest response time

41 days

Slowest response time

*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 158 days

How to submit

Process

If applicable, please include any trigger warnings in the header of your submission.

Cover letters

Coming soon! Advice from editors on what your cover letter and bio should look like!

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

Coming soon! All the Times New Romans and double spaces!

Rights for published work

Coming soon! First, third, none, all the rights!

Additional info

Regretfully, we cannot respond to art submissions until March. Payment/copies. Every contributor receives three complimentary copies of the issue in which their work appears. Additionally, we will be paying contributors. Amount TBD.

About the Magazine

Founded in 1953 | United States

This award-winning literary magazine is edited by undergraduates and issued annually. It includes short works of fiction and nonfiction, poetry, photography, and artwork by students, as well as works contributed from outside Emerson College. Our submission portal is open every year from August 1 to February 1. Reader applications will be open from January 10th through January 24th, 2023, through our Submittable page: https://emersonreview.submittable.com/submit . Meetings will be held Tuesdays at 8PM. For questions and clarifications, please email submissions.er@gmail.com.

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 :)

Michelle Moroses

Editor-in-Chief

Gracie Varda

Managing Editor