SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

New Orleans Review accepts unsolicited submissions of original poetry, fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, and interviews year round. Send submission (complete, legible manuscript, brief cover letter, SASE) to New Orleans Review, Box 195, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA 70118.

Send three to five poems, or one story (up to 6,500 words) at a time only. Please. No previously published work. No multiple submissions. No electronic submissions. Simultaneous submissions O. K. if we’re notified immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. Average response time two to four months.

We’re looking for well-crafted, dynamic writing that demonstrates attention to the language, and a sense of the medium, writing that engages, surprises, moves us. We subscribe to the belief that in order to truly write well, one must master the rudiments: grammar and syntax, punctuation, diction, the sentence, the paragraph, the line, the stanza.

We receive about 3,000 manuscripts a year, and publish about 2% of them. Increase your chances of publication by researching the market. Check out a recent issue. Proofread your work. Send us your best. Be professional, be patient, be persistent.

For a sample copy of a recent New Orleans Review, send $6 to New Orleans Review, Box 195, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA 70118.