New England Review — Free submission with subscription (or renewal)

Overview
New England Review is a quarterly print magazine with a long-standing commitment to literary and artistic work across genres. The submission window is open from September 1 through November 1 and March 1 through May 1, though the magazine may close earlier if it receives more than its allotted number of submissions. For Fall 2026, poetry submissions will close on Friday, September 4 at 11:59 pm EST. The magazine publishes four print issues per year and offers a reduced Writers' Rate subscription of $33 annually, which includes the benefit of free submission. The magazine's purview includes fiction, poetry, translation, craft, and ceramics, among other genres. It maintains a clear stance on artificial intelligence: contributors are expected to engage honestly with their own creative minds and not to outsource writing, translating, or thinking to generative AI. Spell-check and grammar-check are permitted, but writers and translators must affirm that the work submitted is their own and not the product of artificial intelligence tools, software, or generators. While the magazine does not charge a submission fee for subscribers, the subscription itself functions as a paid entry point. The curatorial vision emphasizes literary craft and original thought, with a particular interest in short stories, short shorts, novellas, and novel excerpts, as well as translation and other genres. The reduced Writers' Rate is designed to support writers while sustaining the magazine's operations.