The Southeast Review

Fiction

Max words: 7500

Max pieces: 1

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

Flash rules

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

Max words: 7500

Max pieces: 1

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

15 single-spaced pages max

Art

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.

Review

Max words: 1200

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

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.

Photography

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.