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Literary Journal

Red Wheelbarrow

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#308 Overall · 37.9 ptsTier 4
Journals & literary magazines1 open opportunity listed

About the magazine

Red Wheelbarrow (since 2000), formerly Bottomfish , believes that everything that crosses the transom merits deep attention. We believe that beauty and meaning will inhabit wildly varied and unexpected voices and styles.

Editorial focus

PoetryFictionCreative Nonfiction

Submitting your work

Reading periodAug 1 to Jan 1
Reading feeNo
PaymentContributor copies only
Response time3 to 6 months
Simultaneous submissionsYes
Unsolicited submissionsYes

Our journal is well produced, eclectic, tough-minded, open, lyrical, passionately socio-politically engaged. We value quiet and craft, the gaze into nature, the deft image, the startling leap, meditative consciousness—and great use of language. We honor and crave all of those qualities in art as in one another. Send us your good stuff. E-mail submissions to [email protected] . Then if we publish your work, join us at WORKS/San Jose in March to read at our publication celebration. Also submit to annual Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize in our submission portal.

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Submission calls

2 listed
ClosedDeadline · 2026-07-31

Poetry Prize

OpenDeadline · 2027-01-01

Red Wheelbarrow — Submissions

Prize history

Past winners and selected work.

2024Ellery Akers

2024Partridge Boswell

2024Lynne Ellis

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