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The Southeast Review

Literary Magazine

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Since 1979. 🍊Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Book Reviews, Interviews, & Art Biannual + Online. ✨

www.southeastreview.org

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Highlights

Vibe:Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok
Response time:
2-4 months*
Editor reported data
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135 days*
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Acceptance rate: /
7.32%*
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Fee$3

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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
From the editors
Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
From the editors
yes
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
What's that?
Expedited submission: When the magazine offers a faster response time for an extra fee

Fiction - 7500 words max

Max words: 7500

Max pieces: 1

Sub Genres: Literary

Submission fee: $ 3

Payment: $

We don’t publish novellas and will only consider novel excerpts if they work as stand-alone stories.

Fiction - 1000 words max

Max words: 1000

Sub Genres: Literary

Submission fee: $ 3

Payment: $

We rarely publish short-shorts outside of our World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest. If you do plan to submit short-shorts, however, please send no more than five per submission.

Nonfiction - 7500 words max

Max words: 7500

Max pieces: 1

Submission fee: $ 3

Payment: $

We’re open to a variety of forms, including memoir, travel writing, and personal essay. We don’t, however, publish academic or research writing.

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

Submission fee: $ 3

Payment: $

15 single-spaced pages max

Review

Max words: 800

Max words: 1200

Submission fee: $ 3

Payment: $

When we are open for book review submissions, please submit current (published within the past year), single-book reviews of poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction of 800-1200 words. We prefer reviews of books by emerging writers and small presses.

Interview

Submission fee: $ 3

Payment: $

We’re interested in interviews that balance an intimate portrayal of the writer with their work. Explore the personal, ask about the nonliterary, evoke a mood. Create context for the work under discussion, then give us a sense of how the writer identifies with a particular tradition or is trying to break from it. We encourage making connections with political and historical events so that your conversation opens to broader audiences. Please send us a complete interview for consideration. We particularly welcome interviewers and writers from historically marginalized groups.

Art

Submission fee: $ 3

Payment: $

We are particularly interested in innovative, original black-and-white images for our covers. We also consider art in any medium to feature within each biannual issue and on SER Online.

Photography

Submission fee: $ 3

Payment: $

We are particularly interested in innovative, original black-and-white images for our covers. We also consider art in any medium to feature within each biannual issue and on SER Online.

How to submit

Processs
Submittable
Cover letter
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Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
Prose should be double-spaced, poetry should be single-spaced.
Author's rights
We acquire First North American serial rights.
Additional info
Payment is in the form of an honorarium from our contributor's fund. Copies. Contributors accepted for print publication will also receive a complimentary copy of the issue in which their work will appear.

Tracker statistics

106

Total submissions tracked

135 days

Average response time

7.32%

Average acceptance rate

19 days

Fastest response time

441 days

Slowest response time

*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 825 days

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About

The Southeast Review, established in 1979 as Sundog, is a national literary magazine housed in the English department at Florida State University, edited and managed by graduate students. Our mission is to present emerging writers on the same stage as well-established ones. We publish literary ficti...

Founded

1979

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www.southeastreview.org

Masthead

LAURA BIAGI

Editor-in-Chief

AMANDA HADLOCK

Assistant Editor

HALEY LANINGHAM

Art Editor

STEPHEN HUNDLEY

Book Reviews Editor

SOPHIA SHEALY

Fiction Editor

NATALIE TOMBASCO

Interviews Editor

LIESEL HAMILTON

Nonfiction Editor

REBECCA HOLCOMB

Nonfiction Editor

MAGGIE NYE SMITH

Online Editor

BRETT HANLEY

Poetry Editor

LAUREN HOWTON

Poetry Editor

ANTHONY BORRUSO

Poetry Editor