The Ocean State Review

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

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The Ocean State Review is a literary journal publishing fiction, poetry, nonfiction, art, scholarship with a creative bent, and book reviews, with an annual reading period from April 5 to November 30.

Response time info: three months until our closing date

Read the full guidelines at oceanstatereview.org↗

Submission calls

fictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Nov 30Fee: $3Pays: One complimentary copy of the issue

Open to: No current University of Rhode Island students; alumni only if three or more years have passed since graduation.

Up to 5000 words; no previously published material; annual reading period runs from April 5 to November 30.

nonfictionEligibility requirementsCloses Nov 30Fee: $3Pays: One complimentary copy of the issue

Open to: No current University of Rhode Island students; alumni only if three or more years have passed since graduation.

Up to 5000 words; includes scholarship with a creative bent; annual reading period runs from April 5 to November 30.

otherEligibility requirementsCloses Nov 30Fee: $3Pays: One complimentary copy of the issue

Open to: No current University of Rhode Island students; alumni only if three or more years have passed since graduation.

Book reviews & interviews: 1000-1500 words; annual reading period runs from April 5 to November 30.

poetryEligibility requirementsCloses Nov 30Fee: $3Pays: One complimentary copy of the issue

Open to: No current University of Rhode Island students; alumni only if three or more years have passed since graduation.

Submit 3-5 unpublished poems in one document (not to exceed ten pages); annual reading period runs from April 5 to November 30.

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