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Cleveland Review of Books publishes risk-taking critical writing, fiction, poetry, and hybrid work focused on literature, culture, and the Midwest.

Response time info: within six weeks

Read the full guidelines at clereviewofbooks.com↗

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fictionLiteraryPays: $50 for online publication; $100 for print.

Seeks fiction with prickly, difficult, unlikable, foolish, or otherwise challenging narrators. Stories should not exceed 5,000 words. Current rates are $50 online and $100 print.

nonfictionLiteraryPays: $150 for online publication; $400 for print; print interviews $200.

Invites critical-creative reviews, essays, collaborations, letters, conversations, and other inventive forms engaging texts, ideas, techniques, and contexts. Two to five paragraphs outlining a specific angle are requested. Current rates are $150 online and $400 print; print interviews pay $200.

poetryLiteraryPays: $50 for online publication; $100 for print.

Invites poetry and adjacent texts, with an interest in experimentation, sustained attention, research, texture, and performance. Send up to six poems or equivalent.

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