Call for Submissions: Northwest Review

Thank you for your interest in the Northwest Review. We look forward to reading your work.

Founded at the University of Oregon in 1957, the Northwest Review publishes fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, flash fiction/nonfiction, translations, and art. Located in Eugene, Oregon, the journal will always welcome work related to the Pacific Northwest, but we are a national magazine, open to writers beyond borders and limits. We love innovation in form and style, but prize literary quality above all. Surprise us, transport us, immerse us, entertain us, move us—give us your best.

We are open to both new and established writers. We have published Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners, but we also love nothing more than discovering new voices, particularly those from marginalized backgrounds.

Authors receive $25 per poem and up to $75 per short story/essay. Please allow six months before querying. Due to the volume of submissions, we may not be able to respond to individual queries.

For poetry, please send one to four poems at a time (and no more than 10 pages). Short fiction and creative nonfiction should range between 1,000 and 9,000 words. We also accept flash fiction and flash nonfiction of up to 1,000 words (please submit no more than three per submission).

We accept simultaneous submissions but please let us know ASAP if your work is accepted elsewhere. We only accept writing that has not been previously published. Do not resubmit work even if it’s been revised, unless a revision is requested by the editors. We do not publish current University of Oregon students.

Please submit your work via Submittable. The small submission fee we charge helps keep the lights on and ensures we can publish writers at all stages of their careers.

Our professional genre editors select all NWR content but work in close collaboration with both undergraduate and graduate student editors to produce each issue. NWR provides UO students with opportunities to gain valuable experience in literary editing and production. We also employ a team of volunteer editors, who help us find the best work possible. Most of the work we publish is found through the slush pile. Although we are a digital publication, we hope to eventually expand to publishing print anthologies and books of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

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Deadline: Feb. 16, 2026

Submit your work here.