Our current reading period runs from January 15 to March 31.
Submit your poetry, fiction, or nonfiction for our Summer/Fall issue.
We pay $55 for poetry and flash, and $135 for prose pieces over 1500 words. See below for details.
To get a sense of what we are looking for, our Excerpts blog has samples of accepted work and you can hear contributors reading their work on our Soundcloud channel. After February 2024 we will publish exclusively online, without a paywall, but single copies of past issues are still available on our website.
Here are our guidelines:
One submission per writer per reading period.
Payment: $55 for flash prose and short poems; $135 for longer prose and poems. For us "flash" is up to 1500 words, longer prose is 1,500 to 6,000 words. For poetry, "long" is seven manuscript pages or more. We pay on publication.
Complimentary Submissions: We offer free submissions to authors and poets from historically marginalized groups. There's a limited number of these submissions available each reading period so plan to submit early. If the category does not appear below, we have reached our cap.
Submission fees: Standard submission fees for poetry and flash prose are $4; for longer prose the fee is $5.
Our Transparency in Publishing page shows how submission fees help us pay our contributors and support team.
Submission expectations:
- Our standard response time is up to twelve weeks from submission. Previous contributors to Tahoma Literary Review should wait one full reading period before submitting again.Word or PDF files only. If we accept a file in PDF, we will subsequently need a Word (or compatible) version.
- Prose submissions should be in standard manuscript format (Double-spaced, Times New Roman font, 12-point type, one-inch margins, author name and contact information on the first page).
- Poetry submissions may include up to six poems in one manuscript.
- All submissions should be made via Submittable. If this limitation presents an accessibility issue, please contact the editors for alternatives.
- We do not accept previously published material. This includes publication in any public venue, including print, web, and personal blogs.
- We are not currently reading plays, screenplays, translations, reviews, works that include images, novel excerpts, or children’s/young adult literature.
Expedited Response: For an extra $3, we will respond within two weeks of submission (our standard response is twelve weeks). Expedited submissions do not guarantee acceptance.
Critiques and Feedback: We can provide detailed editorial feedback specific to your work. An experienced reader from our staff will read your work in depth and comment on it. See the submission categories for critiques and for feedback for details and pricing. Critiques are available year-round.
Rights: We ask for first North American serial rights and will post accepted work online as part of a complete issue. We intend to leave accepted works online indefinitely; otherwise all rights revert to the author upon publication.
Please do not resubmit revised work unless we have requested it specifically.
Simultaneous submissions Please inform us if a work is accepted elsewhere. You can use Submittable’s Withdraw feature to withdraw a submission fully. For flash prose or poetry use Submittable's Message feature to withdraw one of the selections and leave any others for our consideration.
Submit your work here.
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