Writers Guidelines
Boston Review
acquires the first-serial rights to accepted pieces; copyright reverts
to the author after publication. We do not consider previously published
material. Simultaneous submissions are fine as long as we are notified
of the fact. Our mailing address is Boston Review, 35 Medford St., Suite 302, Somerville, MA 02143. We do not accept faxed submissions, and we do not
accept e-mailed fiction or poetry submissions.
Payment varies. Response time is generally 2-4 months. A self-addressed
stamped envelope must accompany all submissions.
The best way to get a sense of the kind of material Boston Review
is looking for is to read the magazine. (Sample copies are available
for $5.00.)
NONFICTION
AND BOOK-REVIEW ESSAYS: If you would like us to consider a piece, please e-mail your query along with a résumé
and several published clips to editors@bostonreview.net.
FICTION:
From Junot Díaz, fiction editor: Im looking for
fiction that resembles the Thirty-Mile Woman from Toni Morrisons
Beloved: She is a friend of my mind. She gather me,
man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in
all the right order. Or as Takashi Murakami puts it: We
want to see the newest things. That is because we want to see the
future, even if only momentarily. It is the moment in which, even
if we dont completely understand what we have glimpsed, we
are nonetheless touched by it. This is what we have come to call
art. Im looking for fiction in which a heart struggles
against itself, in which the messy unmanageable complexity of the
world is revealed. Sentences that are so sharp they cut the eye.
POETRY: Boston Review reads poetry submissions between
September 15 and May 15 each year. We are devoted to selecting from
unsolicited manuscripts the majority of the poems published in our
magazine. We encourage you to submit your work. |