Trace Fossils Review

Open now for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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Trace Fossils Review is a quarterly publication seeking ferocious, difficult, resonant original poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

Response time info: Most decisions are made within sixteen weeks of submission.

Read the full guidelines at tracefossilsreview.org↗

Submission calls

fictionLiteraryCloses Oct 31Pays: No payment; accepted print contributors receive one contributor copy.

Currently open during the Winter submission period, which runs September-October; submissions close October 31 at 11:59pm EST. One piece at a time, maximum 4,000 words; pieces shorter than 300 words are limited to three submissions per period.

nonfictionLiteraryCloses Oct 31Pays: No payment; accepted print contributors receive one contributor copy.

Currently open during the Winter submission period, which runs September-October; submissions close October 31 at 11:59pm EST. Accepts personal essays, journalism, memoirs, lyric essays, critical essays, and similar work; one piece per reading period, maximum 4,000 words.

poetryLiteraryCloses Oct 31Pays: No payment; accepted print contributors receive one contributor copy.

Currently open during the Winter submission period, which runs September-October; submissions close October 31 at 11:59pm EST. Up to 3 pieces per period, no longer than 132 lines or three print pages, submitted together in one file.

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