Literary Journal
Maine Review
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About the magazine
The Maine Review is a biannual online literary journal that publishes culturally significant and innovative writing by writers living in Maine, across the country, and around the world. Maine Review Publications is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to making contemporary literature accessible to readers and writers of all incomes.
Editorial focus
PoetryFictionCreative Nonfiction
Submitting your work
Reading periodJan 1 to Mar 31
Reading feeYes
PaymentCash
Response time3 to 6 months
Simultaneous submissionsYes
Unsolicited submissionsYes
The Maine Review seeks outstanding contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including works in translation and hybrid forms. We are pleased to publish new, emerging, and established writers, and are committed to supporting representation, innovation, and literary artistry. We have three reading periods. Our general submission reading fee is $3, but we also regularly offer free submission opportunities. Send us writing you’re excited about, work that pulls us in and makes us think, question, or feel. Send us pieces that took courage to begin and tenacity to complete.
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