The Good Life Review

How to submit

• Processs

  Submittable

• Cover letter

  We'd like to know a little bit about you and/or your work but do not need a formal letter. Letters are cool too, though. Really, it can be whatever you want.

• Eligibility

  No specific eligibility requirements

• Formatting

  All pieces should be typed and paginated with one-inch margins and a 12 point serif font, preferably Times New Roman. Prose should be double spaced. For poetry: The formatting should be as desired to achieve the intended aesthetic with the understanding that longer lines and unique formatting could result in altered presentation based on the display media/window size being used. For example, long lines could wrap to a new line. We do our best with what you give us. We prefer to read blind so please remove your name from the submitted document.

• Author's rights

  The Good Life Review acquires First North American Serial Rights and the right to maintain an archive copy of work online. All other rights revert to author upon publication with a request that if the work is reprinted, appropriate acknowledgment to The Good Life Review is made.

• Additional info

  Each submissions should include work from only one genre/category (for example do not create a submission with both fiction and poetry unless it is to be considered as a hybrid piece). Please only one submission per category at a time and wait to hear back before submitting again. We pay $75 per piece for writing in our seasonal issues (beginning with issue #15 ~ Spring 2024) and $25 per piece for writing appearing in our Micro Monday segment and for book reviews. Fee: $3 for submissions to be considered for seasonal issues. There are fee-free options for marginalized groups during some portion of each reading period. There is currently no fee for submitting artwork or pieces to be considered for the “Micro Monday” segment. 100% of the work we publish is unsolicited and many of the writers are early in their writing and/or publishing journey. Further, every piece that lands in our queue is handled with care and given serious consideration and each is evaluated by at least two editors (in addition to a number of readers) on our teams. We no longer accept pieces from our University Nebraska Omaha MFA friends via Submittable. If interested, please send correspondence directly to managing editor, Tacheny, at tacheny.perry@thegoodlifereview.com.