The Los Angeles Review

Open now for fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, other work, and poetry.

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The Los Angeles Review is a literary journal publishing fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations, and book reviews in print and online formats.

Response time info: two to four months

Read the full guidelines at losangelesreview.org↗

Submission calls

fictionLiterary$3.00 reading fee

General submissions are open year-round. Seeks lively, vivid literary fiction, including sequences of shorts or standalone stories, from 1,000–4,000 words.

flashLiterary$3.00 reading fee

General submissions are open year-round. Seeks lively, vivid flash fiction under 1,000 words; one story per submission.

nonfictionLiterary$3.00 reading fee

General submissions are open year-round. Seeks compelling, focused, sustained essays, memoir, commentary, or flash nonfiction in a distinctive voice; standard submissions are 1,000–4,000 words.

otherLiterary$3.00 reading fee

General submissions are open year-round. Welcomes completed reviews of new and recent poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and hybrid books, no more than 1,200 words.

otherLiterary$3.00 reading fee

General submissions are open year-round. Submit no more than 5 poems or 5 pages of prose, with biographical notes, the original text, and permission from the rights holder to translate and publish in the United States.

poetryLiterary$3.00 reading fee

General submissions are open year-round. Submit 3–5 poems; form, free verse, prose poetry, and experimental styles are welcome.

fictionLiteraryOpens Apr 1, 2027

The Los Angeles Review Awards accept submissions April 1 through July 31, 2026. General award submissions are subject to a $20.00 reading fee.

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