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"The Southern Review strives to discover and promote a diverse array of engaging, relevant, and challenging literature—including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation from literary luminaries as well as the best established and emerging writers."
"The Southern Review strives to discover and promote a diverse array of engaging, relevant, and challenging literature—including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation from literary luminaries as well as the best established and emerging writers."
Vibe
Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok
Response Time
Acceptance Rate
Payment
Yes: $50-$200
Fee
Yes: $3
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
No
Accepted genres
4 genres
Fiction
Max pieces: 1
We rarely publish work that is longer than 10,000 words, though we will consider it.
Nonfiction
Max pieces: 1
We rarely publish work that is longer than 10,000 words, though we will consider it.
Poetry
No more than either five poems or fifteen pages.
Translation
No specific limitations
Fiction
Max pieces: 1
We rarely publish work that is longer than 10,000 words, though we will consider it.
Nonfiction
Max pieces: 1
We rarely publish work that is longer than 10,000 words, though we will consider it.
Poetry
No more than either five poems or fifteen pages.
Translation
No specific limitations
Statistics
We're able to provide them because you use our tracker!
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46
Total submissions tracked
288 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
29 days
Fastest response time
1125 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 2045 days
How to submit
Process
We use our own submissions manager, which you can find at https://submissions.thesouthernreview.org/
Cover letters
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Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
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Rights for published work
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Additional info
Pays! $50 for the first printed page and $25 for each subsequent printed page with a maximum payment of $200, plus two copies of the issue in which the work appears, and a one-year subscription to The Southern Review. Available in print Submission fee
About the Magazine
Founded in 1935 | United States
The Southern Review is one of the nation’s premier literary journals. Hailed by Time as "superior to any other journal in the English language," we have made literary history since our founding in 1935. The Southern Review strives to discover and promote a diverse array of engaging, relevant, and challenging literature—including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation from literary luminaries as well as the best established and emerging writers. The journal also features a broad range of visual artists from across the South and around the globe.
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 :)
Jessica Faust
Co-Editor and Poetry Editor
Sacha Idell
Co-Editor and Prose Editor
