Four Way Review — Submissions
Overview
Four Way Review operates as the literary journal affiliated with Four Way Books, a distinguished independent press with a long-standing commitment to poetry and literary prose. The review extends that editorial mission into a periodical format, publishing new work across fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Its rolling submissions policy reflects a continuous engagement with contemporary writing rather than a seasonal or contest-driven model, allowing the editorial team to read and select work on an ongoing basis. For the submitting writer, the review offers publication within a literary ecosystem shaped by the press's curatorial standards. Four Way Books has built its reputation on attentive, editorially rigorous collections, and the review functions as a space where individual poems, stories, and essays enter that same conversation. Contributors receive the validation of placement in a journal associated with a respected independent publisher, alongside the editorial attention that such an affiliation implies. The journal's aesthetic scope is deliberately broad within its three genres, but it is not indiscriminate. The editors seek writing that demonstrates craft, intellectual seriousness, and a distinctive voice—work that would sit comfortably alongside the press's book-length publications. There is no stated thematic constraint, which places the burden of coherence on the submitted work itself: each piece must justify its presence through its own formal and imaginative integrity.