Great River Review

Open now for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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Great River Review is the literary journal of the University of Minnesota Creative Writing program, publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in print and selectively online.

Response time info: within six months

Read the full guidelines at greatriverreview.com↗

Submission calls

fictionLiteraryFee: $2 USD

Submissions for Issue 75 are open in all genres. Submit one fully embodied story of up to 9,000 words; simultaneous submissions are accepted.

nonfictionLiteraryFee: $2 USD

Submissions for Issue 75 are open in all genres. Submit one piece of up to 9,000 words; the magazine seeks risk-taking, richly textured nonfiction and accepts memoir engaging larger ideas. Simultaneous submissions are accepted.

poetryLiteraryFee: $2 USD

Submissions for Issue 75 are open in all genres, but the magazine is not reading poetry for Issue 75. Poetry submissions normally contain 3–6 poems, up to ten pages total, with each poem on its own page.

poetryLiterary

The 2027 Pink Poetry Prize offers a $1,000 award for a single poem; submit up to three poems with a ten-page limit. Submissions are closed.

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