The Woodward Review accepts poetry, prose, hybrid and digital media from January 1 – March 1 and September 1 – November 1. If you’re able, please send work through Submittable at wlr.submittable.com/submit. Submissions of reviews & responses are welcome during the summer months, for readers and prior contributors to reflect upon anything highlighted by the Review; these may be written in any genre or medium. If Submittable presents an accessibility barrier, send your work to woodwardreview@wayne.edu, under the subject line [Category] Submission.
The Woodward Review is a paying market, commensurate with our funding for each submissions window; for volume 2 issue 2, we’re able to pay $50 per contributor. All submissions are free.
General
We’re looking for work from new and established writers and artists, but only if it’s previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are great, but please (please!) let us know if your submission gets accepted elsewhere (if it’s just one piece from a submission set, let us know that, too). Written submissions should be sent as a doc, docx, or pdf, while hybrid and digital submissions can be in any file type you think we can access without additional software.
Include a short cover letter & bio in the body of your email; we’d like to know who you are, not just who’s published you — if you’re in, from, or have roots in Detroit, let us know! While students, faculty, and staff, currently or formerly (within reason) affiliated with Wayne State University are ineligible for consideration or publication of original work, anyone is welcome to submit reviews & responses.
We’re committed to creating space for voices that are traditionally and systemically silenced, and The Woodward Review hopes to establish processes for affirmative editorial action. We acknowledge it’s impossible to escape aesthetic biases when deciding what makes good art, so we do not intend to try to find what is “good.” We welcome experiments and failures, but submissions or submitters that support racism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, classism, sexism, ableism need not apply.
We believe in the importance of compensating all workers for work, and we will always pay our contributors. For Volume 2 Issue #2, we're paying $50 per regular contributor. The Woodward Review purchases first North American print publication rights only; all other rights are retained by the author. We will also offer the option of publishing under a Creative Commons license. .
Most submissions get a response in 1– 3 months, but if it seems like there’s gum in the works or you have any other problems or questions, send an email with the subject line Query. If you’re accepted for publication, we’ll request links to previous online publications you’re proud of, or any books or chaps you have in print, to provide a wider template for reviewers & responders to consider your work.
More information here.
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