Submission Guidelines for Writers
also see guidelines for COVER ARTISTS
WRITERS:
New England Review is published four times a year: winter, spring,
fall, and summer. Our submissions period is September 1 through May
31 (postmark dates) only. Any submissions that arrive during the summer
will be returned unread.
We suggest that you examine a copy of NER to see what our
standards and preferences are. The current issue is available at better
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$5 for oversease orders, $2 Canadia. Orders should be sent with payment
to Order Department, New England Review, Middlebury College, Middlebury,
VT 05753; or call our toll-free subscriptions line (800-450-9571).
We consider short stories, short-shorts, novellas, and self-contained
extracts from novels; long and short poems; interpretive and personal
essays; book reviews, screenplays, dramatic works, translations, critical
reassessments, interviews, cultural criticism, and letters from abroad.
Please do not combine genres in the same envelope, and do not
submit work that has been published previously elsewhere, whether in
print or on the web.
Prose: In general, prose submissions of any genre
should be no more than 10,000 words (approx. thirty pages)
in length, though we do make exceptions. Novellas and novel
excerpts, for instance, can be longer but should not exceed 25,000
words. Please send just one piece at a time,
unless the pieces are very short.
We will consider prose submissions that have been offered simultaneously
to other publications, as long as you make it clear that it is a simultaneous
submission and withdraw your submission immediately upon acceptance
elsewhere. We attempt to respond to all prose submissions
within twelve weeks, though we are not always able to do so. After
twelve weeks have passed, you may query as to the status of your submission;
e-mail queries are preferred, but you may also query by mail (include
SASE) or phone.
Poetry: send
no more than six poems at once. Effective immediately, we no
longer accept simultaneous submissions in poetry. We consistently
respond to poetry submissions within twelve weeks. After twelve weeks
have passed, you may query as to the status of your submission; e-mail
queries are preferred, but you may also query by mail (include SASE)
or phone.
Please address your submission
to Prose, Fiction, or Poetry Editor. You may use an editor's name
if you prefer. Our address for all correspondence, including submissions,
is New England Review, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
05753.
All manuscripts should be printed in standard type and should be clean
and legible. Never send your only copy; we cannot be responsible for
lost or damaged manuscripts. We do not accept electronic submissions.
If you don’t need your manuscript returned, enclose a
letter-size self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) for our reply only;
we recycle unreturned manuscripts. If you would like your manuscript
returned, enclose an SASE that is large enough and carries enough U.S.
postage to return your manuscript and our reply. Overseas contributors
should include international reply-paid coupons. Be sure to send an
SASE with any query.
Please do not send another submission until you’ve received a
response about the first. Additional manuscripts will be returned unread.
We cannot accommodate revisions or forgotten SASEs. A contract is sent
on acceptance, and payment is ten dollars per page, twenty dollars minimum,
upon publication, plus two free copies of the issue in which your work
appears. Authors receive pre-publication galleys. Copyright reverts
to the author upon publication, but New England Review retains
the right to publish and reproduce the work in NER’s print and
electronic or website publications, in the original format or as part
of an anthology or compilation, and to authorize third-party online
databases that reprint NER materials to publish and reproduce the work.