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Nashville Review is a Vanderbilt-affiliated literary magazine publishing fiction, poetry, nonfiction, translations, and hybrid work, with two reading periods each year.

Response time info: typically 4-5 months

Read the full guidelines at wp0.vanderbilt.edu↗

Submission calls

fictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Oct 31Pays: $100 for prose pieces.

Open to: Current and former Vanderbilt University students and employees within the past five years are ineligible to submit.

Fiction submissions are considered during September/October and January/February. The magazine seeks short stories and novel excerpts up to 7,000 words, flash fiction up to 1,000 words, and micro fiction under 500 words; submissions may explore genre, form, and content. The magazine caps submissions at 500 per section and may close early.

flashLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Oct 31Pays: $100 for prose pieces.

Open to: Current and former Vanderbilt University students and employees within the past five years are ineligible to submit.

Flash fiction is considered during September/October and January/February, up to 1,000 words per piece. Micro fiction must be under 500 words. The magazine caps submissions at 500 per section and may close early.

nonfictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Oct 31Pays: $100 for prose pieces.

Open to: Current and former Vanderbilt University students and employees within the past five years are ineligible to submit.

Creative nonfiction is considered during September/October and January/February, including memoir excerpts, essays, and imaginative meditations, up to 8,000 words. The magazine caps submissions at 500 per section and may close early.

otherLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Oct 31Pays: $100 for prose pieces; $25 per poem.

Open to: Current and former Vanderbilt University students and employees within the past five years are ineligible; translators must have permission from the rights holder.

Translation submissions are considered during September/October and January/February. Send prose up to 8,000 words or no more than two poems by the same author; the original work may have been published, but it must be previously unpublished in English, and the translator must have permission from the rights holder. The magazine caps submissions at 500 per section and may close early.

poetryLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Oct 31Pays: $25 per poem.

Open to: Current and former Vanderbilt University students and employees within the past five years are ineligible to submit.

Poetry submissions are considered during September/October and January/February. Submit 1–3 poems totaling no more than 10 pages; the magazine seeks poetry that surprises with its many pleasures. The magazine caps submissions at 500 per section and may close early.

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