Call for Submissions: Red Earth Review

Red Earth Review, a literary magazine published by the Red Earth MFA program at Oklahoma City University, will be accepting submissions for our eighth edition beginning October 1, 2019. Our Submittable page will open shortly after midnight on October 1, 2019.

 

Much like the program that shares its name, Red Earth Review seeks writers who are genuine, grounded, and fearless. We crave poetry or prose firm in the foundation of its craft and steadfast in its soul. Our submission guidelines are below. We look forward to reading your work.

 

Red Earth Review accepts fiction – both literary and genre – creative nonfiction, and poetry, and encourages new and emerging writers to submit. The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2019, or 300 submissions, whichever comes first.

 

Poets submit:
· Up to 5 unpublished poems. You must submit one poem at a time, in one submission at a time, for a total of up to five submissions. Submissions that contain more than one poem will not be read.
o 1 poem per submission
o Make a new submission for each poem!
o Please attach poems in a Word file (.doc or .docx).
o Please include a bio (100 words or less) in the bio section of the submission form.

 

Fiction and creative nonfiction writers submit:
· 1 unpublished piece, no more than 7,500 words.
o Please attach submission in a Word file (.doc or .docx).
o Please include a bio (100 words or less) in the bio section of the submission form..
OR
· No more than 5 unpublished flash pieces, fewer than 500 words each, separately.
o 1 flash piece per file/submission
o Please attach each submission in a Word file (.doc or .docx).
o Please include a bio (100 words or less) in the bio section of the submission form..

• Please maintain standard formatting for your non-poetry submissions: double spaced and set in 12 pt. Times New Roman, with 1" margins.

• Poetry should be single spaced and set in 12 pt. Times New Roman. Do not use tabs; instead, use the space bar for indents and other nonstandard lines.

• Submissions that do not follow guidelines on the Submittable page will not be read.

• Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but if your submitted work is accepted elsewhere, please withdraw your submission using your Submittable account as soon as possible.

Red Earth Review holds First North American Serial Rights on submissions we publish; all other rights revert to the author after publication.

 

We reserve the right to determine whether material submitted should be published or not.

 

For more information and to read free PDFs of Issues 1 through 7, check out our page.