The Hooghly Review
Literary Magazine
The Hooghly Review is a digital non-profit and free-access magazine of literature & arts with the aim to shine a light on emerging and underrated writers, storytellers, poets, artists, and other creatives across the globe.
Highlights
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- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 1 month*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
From the editors
We generally solicit previously published work. If you would like to send us work previously published in defunct magazines, meaning they’re no longer on the internet, you can.
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
From the editors
Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction
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 (including Novel Excerpts, Translations)
Max words: 1001
Max words: 2500
Max pieces: 1
Sub Genres: All / surprise us, Literary
Fiction - 1000 words max
Max words: 401
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 1
Sub Genres: All / surprise us, Literary
Fiction (including Prose Poetry)
Max words: 100
Max words: 400
Max pieces: 3
Sub Genres: All / surprise us, Literary
Nonfiction (Literature Essays)
Max words: 2000
Max pieces: 1
Nonfiction (Creative)
Max words: 401
Max words: 2500
Max pieces: 1
Sub Genres: , , ,
Nonfiction (Creative)
Max words: 100
Max words: 400
Max pieces: 3
Sub Genres: , , ,
Poetry
Max lines: 50
Min pieces: 1
Max pieces: 5
Art (also Photography, Haiga, Photo Essays)
Max pieces: 10
Play (and Film Scripts)
Max pieces: 1
Comics (including Cartoons)
Max pieces: 3
How to submit
Processs
Email
Cover letter
Cover Letter Checklist · Short and crisp cover letter. ‘Dear Editors’ is fine. · No need to introduce/summarise your work unless you want to share relevant info. · We don’t require CW/TW but you’re welcome to include them. · No contributor bios, please. We will solicit bios and photos upon acceptance. · Please mention if it is a simultaneous or exclusive submission. · If it is a reprint [check FAQ to see if your reprint is eligible], please include details of previous publication. · If it is a translation, please include the original work, author’s permission and email. Or mention if the work is in public domain.
Eligibility
18+
Everyone 18 and above are welcome to submit!Formatting
If it is difficult/not feasible to paste your work in the email body, o Send us a doc/docx file (no PDFs, please). o Your file name should be Your Name_Genre (eg: Jane Wild_Poetry). o We prefer 12-pt, single-spaced, any readable serif font, no paragraph indents, left-aligned, and references instead of footnotes, if any. o For work with special formatting, please send a PDF too.
Author's rights
Rights: · Copyright of the work remains with the contributor. · We ask for First Electronic Publication Rights and credits when your work is republished. · We also ask for Archival Rights on our website indefinitely. · If we ever plan an anthology from the work published in our magazine, we’ll request permission from the contributor. · We nominate our contributors for awards such as the Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions etc.
Additional info
Our Editorial/Publication Ethics: · We have a strict policy against plagiarism and work deliberately intended to offend any person or group. Upon receiving such submissions, we reserve the right to ban you permanently from submitting to our magazine. · We’re sure AI is helpful in many ways but this space is about original creativity and so we won’t publish AI-generated work. · Our readers are (hopefully) mature adults. Eroticism/sensuality in literature and art is wonderful, but we will reject pornographic work. · Hit us with experimental themes, and difficult subject matters. As such, your work may be political but we don’t want to be preached at. · While we love work that brings forth your culture, we don’t want religious work intended to proselytize.
Tracker statistics
15
Total submissions tracked
11 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
0 days
Fastest response time
17 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 78 days
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The Hooghly Review is a digital non-profit and free-access magazine of literature, culture & arts with the aim to shine a light on emerging and underrated writers, storytellers, poets, artists, and other creatives across the globe. Named and conceptualised by Tejaswinee Roychowdhury in July 2022, sh...
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2022
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IN
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Tejaswinee Roychowdhury
Editor-in-Chief
Ankit Raj Ojha
Editor-in-Chief