summer submissions

[pixiejuice]

I'm looking for some good lit journals (non-genre) that accept short fiction submissions during the summer months. It seems like the ones run by universities (which is most of them) end their reading periods with the spring semester.

I'll list the ones I've found so far:

The Mid-American Review
Glimmertrain

So what do you guys have?

Edited: Just noticed that Zoetrope also doesn't read June, July or August. Silly me.

[Mike Coombes]

http://www.ralan.com/

This kind of research doesn't really take much effort.

[kohuether]

Thought I'd intervene here-

Mike, sometimes writers want feedback from other writers. I know I've probably asked questions that may seem painfully obvious to others. Occasionally, when gathering info, sometimes you hit a wall. Perhaps that is what happened in this instance.

With that said, I actually don't have any markets to share. Sorry!

[Mike Coombes]

Ralans lists just about every market going. Try also Spicy Green Iguana, Preditors and Editors, Storypilot and, if all else fails, google.

[Greer]

Actually, Ralans mainly lists genre markets, and the question was specifically about non-genre literary markets.

StoryQuarterly does NOT accept in the summer -- only Oct. through Mar.

Off the top of my head: Paris Review, Granta, Missouri Review, Ontario Review, Black Warrior Review, Yale Review, The Sun, New Orleans Review, Witness, and Threepenny Review all read over the summer. There are others too, but I can't think of them at the moment. Your best bet is to look in the index at the back of the O.Henry Awards or Best American to see which journals are considered and then check their website. Hope this helps!

[kohuether]

I agree with Mike, google is actually pretty good. If you type non-genre literary markets in google, you can weed out from there which ones accept submissions in summer. I tried making the search string longer "non-genre literary markets summer" and it didn't seem to make a difference in the results. I didn't try putting any of that in quotes though because I only spent about ten seconds on the task. You might want to try it.

[pixiejuice]

Thank you Greer, I'll have a look at those. I see that page now on the StoryQuarterly website. I must have missed that the first time. I'll edit my post so that nobody else gets the wrong info.

And Mike, it does take a lot of effort to find a good magazine that suits not only your genre or lack thereof, but also your own personal style. You don't just submit anywhere. So there's no reason to be rude.

[ClaudiaP]

Last I checked, Chariton, Cimarron, Connecticut Review, Conduit (I think; don't have my spreadsheet in front of me), Indiana Review, South Dakota Review, New Yorker, more. Will check sheet when I get home.

[mburrell]

See if this helps:



> The Following Links are open for submissions all year

> http://www.missourireview.org/

> http://www.mississippireview.com/index.html

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> http://www.nighttrainmagazine.com/about.html

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> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/fandango.virtual/gator/index.html

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> http://harpurpalate.binghamton.edu/index.html

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> http://cimarronreview.okstate.edu/index.html

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> http://www.flreview.com/

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> http://www.land-grantcollegereview.com/index.php

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> http://www.literal-latte.com/

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> http://www.bgsu.edu/studentlife/organizations/midamericanreview/index2.html

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> http://www.oxfordamericanmag.com/

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> http://www.auburn.edu/english/shr/home.htm

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> http://www.storyquarterly.org/guidelines.asp

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> http://www.louisvillereview.org/

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> http://members.cox.net/thema/submissions.html

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> > http://webdelsol.com/Witness/w-info.htm

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> The Following Publications are Closed in the Summer

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> http://www.engl.unt.edu/alr/

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> http://humanities.pc.edu/review/current.htm

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> http://webdelsol.com/Five_Points/home.htm

> http://www.english.lsu.edu/journals/ndr/submissions/index.htm

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> http://www.one-story.com/index.php?page=guidelines

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> http://libweb.sfasu.edu/real/default.htm

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> http://shenandoah.wlu.edu/submit.html

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> http://www.unc.edu/depts/cqonline/

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> http://www.gpc.edu/~gpccr/

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> http://www.uga.edu/garev/submissions.htm

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> http://appl003.lsu.edu/southernreview.nsf/$Content/Guidelines+for+Submission

> ?OpenDocument

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> http://www.vqronline.org/page.php/prmID/12

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> http://www.arts.cornell.edu/english/epoch.html

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> http://www.pshares.org/

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> http://www.webdelsol.com/Quarterly_West/archives/iss57/issue57.html

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> http://www.ess.pdx.edu/portlandreview/PRsubmit.html

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> http://www.othervoicesmagazine.org/

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> The Following Are Good Online Publications

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> http://www.carvezine.com/

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> http://www.kennesawreview.org/

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> http://www.mississippireview.com/

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> http://www.smallspiralnotebook.com/index.php?cn=n1

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> http://www.storysouth.com/

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[pixiejuice]

That's a great help, guys. Thanks :)

[ClaudiaP]

Okay, here's what I've got in my spreadsheet for venues with year-round windows, though some may not actually read, or may read more slowly, in the summer. There's some overlap with the posting above, but not 100%, I believe. And I suppose I should take the Atlantic off the list...


YR
American Short FictionAtlanticBarrelhouseBarrow StBellevue Literary RBeloit Poetry JournalBlack Warrior ReviewCharabancCharitonCimarronConduitConjunctions Connecticut ReviewCopper NickelCrankyCrazyhorseDrexel Online JournalEleventh MuseEpiphanyFeminist StudiesFlorida RGrand STt (poems only, no unsolicited fiction)Harpur PalateHayden's Ferry RIndiana RLouisville RMcSweeney'sMain Channel VoicesMangroveMid American RMissouri RNew Hampshire ReviewNew YinzerNew YorkerNight TrainNimrodNomadRosebudSDRThe SunTar Wolf ReviewTwo Rivers ReviewVortical MagazineWazeeZoetrope-

[Sailor Kenshin]

Why should you take the Atlantic off the list? Curious...

[Greer]

Why should you take the Atlantic off the list? Curious...

ClaudiaP is probably referring to the fact that the Atlantic has stopped publishing fiction in their monthly magazine. However, they are still reading and accepting fiction, but only for an annual newsstand only issue. So they're still a good market.

[ClaudiaP]

Sure, you can go ahead and still submit to the Atlantic (though I thought I read in Publishers Lunch that what they're not saying is that this issue will appear online only...but that might be something I misread or misheard). But their fiction issue will only have about 4 stories, so they've gone from 12 to four stories per year, and it won't be distributed to their subscribers. So I figure if your name isn't Alice Munro or Richard Bausch or Joyce Carol Oates, you're outta luck with the Atlantic.

[NicoleJLeBoeuf]

I think that Tin House (http://www.tinhouse.com/) accepts submissions year round. Tough market to crack, though, from what I hear.

[Greer]

Sure, you can go ahead and still submit to the Atlantic (though I thought I read in Publishers Lunch that what they're not saying is that this issue will appear online only...but that might be something I misread or misheard). But their fiction issue will only have about 4 stories, so they've gone from 12 to four stories per year, and it won't be distributed to their subscribers. So I figure if your name isn't Alice Munro or Richard Bausch or Joyce Carol Oates, you're outta luck with the Atlantic.

You may be right about the online only issue...I think their official word was a newsstand special; regardless, your point is well-made regarding the possibility of publishing in the Atlantic. Still, Mike Curtis takes chances on young and unpublished authors much more than either the New Yorker or Harper's does, so you never know.

[Greer]

I think that Tin House (http://www.tinhouse.com/) accepts submissions year round. Tough market to crack, though, from what I hear.

Tin House actually doesn't read during the summer...you're correct in them being a tough market, though.

[ClaudiaP]

Well, never say never. But 4 out of what, 15,000 submissions? Probably not great odds. Whereas the NYer does something like 48 stories per year, including a debut issue that this week has a 23-year-old writer in it...

Still pretty tough odds.

[Mike Coombes]

And Mike, it does take a lot of effort to find a good magazine that suits not only your genre or lack thereof, but also your own personal style. You don't just submit anywhere. So there's no reason to be rude.

Good is subjective, and we aren't to know which mags suit your personal style. Sorry if you think I'm rude, but the only way you'll find what you're looking for is to do some research. It's part of the job.

[Susie]

Hi, all,

Heads up on Spicy Green Iguana. Unfortunately, it's no longer viable.

Happy acceptances, Susie

[macandal]

Tin House actually doesn't read during the summer...you're correct in them being a tough market, though.

Why is Tin House such a tough market to crack? Is there an answer for this or is it that Tin House is just a tough market period? I must admit that one took me by surprise. I expected to hear The New Yorker, Paris Review, Atlantic to be tough markets but never Tin House.

[pdr]

A great list, mburrell, thank you. You've saved me a lot of work as I was looking for new American literary markets. And just to be a pain! Literal Latte is a zine too, one of my favourites.

Forgot to add that I left a list of Canadian literary markets in the Mainstream/Contemporary markets section last week and quite a few of them read over the summer.

[ClaudiaP]

They're all tough markets, all the well known literary journals, anyway. And Tin House is a primo market, so why wouldn't it be tough? It's right up there with McSweeney's and Glimmer Train. Not to mention a lot of other toughies:

North American Review, American Literary Review, New Letters, Other Voices, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Cimarron, Iowa Review, Indiana Review, Shenandoah, Georgia Review, Carolina Quarterly, Epoch, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and the list goes on and on. TriQuarterly, StoryQuarterly...

They're tough because there are a lot of people in MFA programs who are getting to write full time for a couple of years and who are really pushing themselves to write well-polished stuff. And to develop a book-length body of work. Which means that almost any MFA student probably has 5-12 stories in submission to any number of journals at any given time. Not to mention all the professors who are teaching in those MFA programs and who are submitting to the same journals.

To get a good sense of the top markets, look in the back of the latest issue of Best American Short Fiction (or is it Stories?), The Pushcart Prize, or the O Henry Awards. They'll list the magazines where the candidate stories came from. Those are the country's most prestigious journals.

[ClaudiaP]

BTW, most Canadian markets are closed to American writers. They're subsidized by the Canadian government and many of the rules require them to feature Canadian authors only. Or so I've been told.

[pdr]

I'm not Canadian and I don't have problems getting published in Canadian literary magazines. I also write about Canadian markets for a couple of writers' magazines and most of the mags. I have written about are not exclusively Canadian.

[mburrell]

The Chattahoochee Review is now accepting submissions all year.
http://www.gpc.edu/~gpccr/