Southern Humanities Review

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Southern Humanities Review is a quarterly literary journal publishing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, with both print and online features, and pays a small honorarium to contributors.

Response time info: please wait at least 6 months to query

Read the full guidelines at southernhumanitiesreview.com↗

Submission calls

fictionLiteraryCloses Nov 1Fee: $3 (100 free submissions per genre per period)Pays: $50 per prose piece (print); online features: year-long subscription

Submit one story per submission, up to 8,000 words, double-spaced; translations welcome with original and permissions. Capped at 300 general submissions per period. Submission window: fall (August 1-November 1) and spring (February 15-May 15). $3 reading fee, but 100 free submissions per genre per…

fictionLiteraryCloses Nov 1Fee: $3 (100 free submissions per genre per period)Pays: year-long subscription to the print journal

Online Features: Submit one short story per submission, 500-2,000 words, double-spaced. Submission window: fall (August 1-November 1) and spring (February 15-May 15). $3 reading fee, but 100 free submissions per genre per period.

nonfictionLiteraryCloses Nov 1Fee: $3 (100 free submissions per genre per period)Pays: $50 per prose piece (print); online features: year-long subscription

Submit one literary or creative nonfiction essay per submission; all forms and sub-genres welcome, including memoir, lyric essay, literary journalism, travelogue, and scholarly essays for a general audience. Generally no more than 12,000 words. Submission window: fall (August 1-November 1) and…

poetryLiteraryCloses Nov 1Fee: $3 (100 free submissions per genre per period)Pays: $25 per poem (print); online features: year-long subscription

Submit up to three poems at a time; translations welcome with original and permissions. Capped at 250 general submissions per period. Submission window: fall (August 1-November 1) and spring (February 15-May 15). $3 reading fee, but 100 free submissions per genre per period.

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