Guidelines for Submission

• TLR welcomes submissions of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction written in English or translated, essays on contemporary literature, and short reviews. We do not consider work that has been published previously in print or online. Citations in essays should follow the MLA Style Sheet. Query first before submitting reviews. Editorial decisions are usually made within three to four months.

• TLR is now receiving electronic submissions via Submission Manager , and we prefer that process to printouts. Printout submissions should be mailed to The Literary Review, Mail Code M-GH2-01, 285 Madison Avenue, Madison, NJ 07940. Manuscripts cannot be returned without a stamped self-addressed envelope.

• We read submissions between September 1 and January 31. However, because we are initiating the online submission process, for 2007 we have extended the period for submitting online to April 30.

• No more than one story or five poems should be submitted at any one time. Literary essays should provide an overview of a writer or theme rather than a close reading of individual works. We are especially interested in introducing writers from many nations to our readers.

• Because several issues in each volume year are guest-edited and focus on new writing in a specific language or from a specific nation or region, accepted unsolicited submissions are sometimes backlogged for the next open issue. To address that backlog, we also publish work online at TLRWeb.

• We publish writing we believe most appropriate to TLR's style, interests, and editorial tastes—as well as space limitations. Therefore, rejection does not necessarily imply lack of merit.