CALL-4-SUBMISSIONS: The Southern Review

The Southern Review: Published Quarterly at the State Louisiana University

Submission Guidelines for Poetry and Fiction

The Southern Review publishes fiction, poetry, and excerpts from novels
in progress. We subscribe to the set of standards for good art staked
out by John Gardner in his book On Becoming a Novelist: the work must
(1) create a vivid and continuous dream; (2) demonstrate authorial generosity; (3) reveal intellectual and emotional significance; (4) be rendered with elegance and efficiency; and (5) exhibit an element of strangeness.

Although we are willing to publish experimental writing that appears to have a valid artistic purpose, The Southern Review also agrees with Flannery O’Connor’s observation that a writer is free to try and get away with whatever he wants, but that it had been her experience that there wasn’t much one could get away with. We are, finally, looking to publish the best work that arrives in the mail. Poetry lengths preferred are one to four pages; fiction, four to eight thousand words.

Manuscripts must be typewritten—fiction double-spaced—and accompanied by self-addressed, stamped envelopes with sufficient postage to cover return.
Only occasionally, at the editors’ discretion, will a response be e-mailed to
an author. We are sorry, but we cannot accept international postage coupons in lieu of an SASE. Queries are not necessary. Only previously unpublished works will be considered. Allow at least two months for editorial decisions.

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SHORT STORY AWARD for NEW WRITERS category:

Spring: February 1 – March 31. Results will be posted at http://www.glimmertrain.org/ on July 1.

Fall: August 1 – September 30. Results will be posted at http://www.glimmertrain.org/ on January 2.

Reading fee: $15 per story.

Prizes: 1st place wins $1,200, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and 20 copies of that issue. 2nd/ 3rd-place: $500/$300, respectively.

Other considerations:

Open only to writers whose fiction has not appeared in any publication with a circulation over 5,000. (Entries must be entirely unpublished.)
Stories not to exceed 12,000 words.

I suspect that more than a few editors fail to read beyond the first paragraph of stories sent them by unknown writers. Not so with the editors of Glimmer Train—they seek out new voices in fiction and provide them with valuable exposure. Shortly after my work appeared in Glimmer Train, a collection of my short stories was accepted for publication. —George Makana Clark

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