The Florida Review

Open to: No submissions from current University of Central Florida faculty, staff, or students; alumni must wait five years after graduation.

Accepts short stories, short-shorts (up to 3 per submission, max 15 pages), novel excerpts if they stand alone; up to 30 manuscript pages (9,000 words); realism and fabulism both welcome; submit only one story or essay at a time.

Open to: No submissions from current University of Central Florida faculty, staff, or students; alumni must wait five years after graduation.

Considers memoir, braided essays, lyric essays, hermit crab essays, fragmented essays, flash nonfiction, hybrid work, and literary journalism with a personal element; up to 30 manuscript pages (9,000 words); no scholarly essays.

Graphic narratives demonstrating artistic and literary merit; black and white for print, color considered for online; submit via Submittable as jpeg or PDF.

Book reviews (500-1,500 words) of recent full-length books, especially from small literary and university presses; no self-published books. Interviews with authors also considered.

Open to: No submissions from current University of Central Florida faculty, staff, or students; alumni must wait five years after graduation.

Interested in poems with emotional and intellectual depth, all styles including prose poetry and hybrids; submit up to five poems at a time.