Baltimore Review ★Work published here has won or been selected for: Pushcart Prize, Best American Essays, Best American Short Stories.
Open now for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Last checkedThe Baltimore Review is a literary journal publishing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction in print and online.
Response time info: within four months, usually one to three months
Read the full guidelines at baltimorereview.org↗Submission calls
Open to: Writers must be 18 years of age or older; work generated in whole or in part by artificial intelligence is not accepted.
The current submission period runs August 1 through November 30, 2026. Fiction submissions must not exceed 5,000 words; see the category guidelines for additional details.
Open to: Writers must be 18 years of age or older; work generated in whole or in part by artificial intelligence is not accepted.
The current submission period runs August 1 through November 30, 2026. Creative nonfiction must be clearly creative nonfiction and follow the category guidelines.
Open to: Writers must be 18 years of age or older; work generated in whole or in part by artificial intelligence is not accepted.
The current submission period runs August 1 through November 30, 2026. Submit no more than three poems; see the category guidelines for additional details.
Summer contest categories are open through May 31 and include prose poems, flash fiction, and flash creative nonfiction; contest details and limits are provided in the category guidelines.
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