We thought we’d give you a little homework for the winter break. If you’re waiting for just the right home for your poems and stories about hipsters or heartbreak or radiation, good news: We’re announcing our upcoming themes for The Literary Review 2013 and beyond. Of course, you should interpret these themes very broadly: Topsy Turvy could mean so many things.

Winter 2012/13: Invisible Cities
Spring 2013: Scenester
Summer 2013: Cry Baby
Fall 2013: Topsy Turvy
Winter 2013/14: The Effect of Gamma Rays
Spring 2014: Retribution

Now, you might be saying, jeez, I submitted something 312 days ago that would fit so perfectly into the Gamma Rays edition, and not a word has been murmured to me about it by those pesky editors. To which we say, sorry, and, there are really good reasons for the slow churn of the wheel here at TLR. You can read all about them in an earlier post here, which explains how things work at our almost all-volunteer staff — namely, that every single submission has to be read by more than one person (so a rejection isn’t merely the capricious no of one reader).

You can submit your work electronically, right here.