New Ohio Review — Membership Submissions — Nonfiction

Overview
New Ohio Review operates as a literary journal with a membership model that structures access to its editorial consideration. This call is for nonfiction, though the journal's stated openness to cross-genre and unusually formatted work signals a curatorial interest in essays that resist tidy categorization. The page-width and font-size constraints are not incidental; they are a material condition of the journal's print design, and work that depends on unconventional typography or spatial arrangement must account for that limitation. The membership structure is central to how this opportunity functions. A fee of $21.00 accompanies this submission, but subsequent submissions under the "Subscriber/Member Submissions" category are free. Members may submit up to six times per year, including during non-reading periods—a provision that effectively creates a parallel, year-round channel for member work. Membership also includes the next two issues of NOR, which offers a substantive introduction to the journal's editorial sensibility. The journal does not specify a prize, theme, or juror for this call. What it offers instead is sustained access: a recurring opportunity to place nonfiction with a journal that has demonstrated a commitment to formal range. For writers whose work sits at the edges of the essay—lyric, hybrid, or visually inflected—this is a venue that explicitly welcomes the attempt, provided the work can survive the constraints of the printed page.