Call for Submissions: The Texas Review

The Texas Review accepts submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, short plays, and comics/art. We accept unsolicited submissions via Ola. Unsolicited submissions sent via email or regular mail will be deleted/recycled unread.

FLASH READING PERIOD!!!! JUNE 1-15 ONLY!!!!

Vol. 46 will be a special Innovative Prose issue edited by our CNF/Essays Editor, Katie Jean Shinkle.

We're looking for adventurous, experimental, cutting edge prose that maxes out its form and hybridity and intensity. Do you have a piece that is audacious and/or questionable and/or mystifying and/or astonishing to others and even yourself? As long as it's fit to print--even barely--we want to read it! Send us your innovative prose!

General Guidelines

Send a single short story in a fiction submission, a single essay in a nonfiction submission, or up to 5 poems in a poetry submission. Please only submit once, and only in a single genre.

Prose (fiction and nonfiction) should be double-spaced and page numbered. Poetry should be single-spaced. All work should be submitted in a single file (Word or PDF only).

We cannot publish work that has already appeared on the web or elsewhere in print, or on an app, website, social media feed, or public online community. We can publish original translations if the work has previously appeared in another language, but never before in English.
Poetry

Submissions that most excite us take risks and conduct experiments on meaning and making. We are open to all forms and hybridity.

Fiction

There is no length requirement, though we prefer to publish pieces that are between 3,000-6,000 words. We will consider excerpts if they can be read as standalone works.

Nonfiction

We consider memoir, lyric essays, literary journalism, and experimental/hybrid forms. We do not consider unsolicited scholarly essays, literary/cultural criticism, or reviews. We are especially interested in topics, perspectives, and forms that are underrepresented in publishing.

For partial withdrawals and general inquiries, please email us at:

thetexasreview@shsu.edu