Submissions
The Southern Review welcomes unsolicited work during our submissions period. We will consider only work that has not been published in print or appeared online previously in English. If AI has been used to generate any portion of your submission, you must disclose this on the piece or in your cover letter.
We accept simultaneous submissions but ask that you notify us promptly if your work is accepted elsewhere; send an e-mail to southernreview@lsu.edu with the subject line “withdrawal.” Please do not send submissions to our e-mail address; they will be discarded. The Southern Review cannot consider work from anyone currently or recently affiliated with Louisiana State University, which includes those who have studied or worked there within the past four years. We recommend that before submitting work you familiarize yourself with the journal's aesthetic by subscribing.
Submissions Period
- We accept submissions exclusively through our online submissions manager.
- We accept unsolicited submissions of work in all genres September 1 through January 1.
- We aim to respond within six months, but we ask that you do not query about your manuscript until the following submissions period has opened.
- Please wait until you've heard from us regarding a submission before submitting additional work, and submit no more than twice per submissions period.
Guidelines
Poetry
We accept poetry submissions online through our submissions manager. Send no more than either five poems or fifteen pages, and use a 12-point font. The online submission form can be found at submissions.thesouthernreview.org. Please note that there is a $3 service charge for submissions. Submissions that are not accompanied by this service charge will not be considered.
Fiction and Nonfiction
We accept prose submissions online through our submissions manager. The online submission form can be found at submissions.thesouthernreview.org. Please note that there is a $3 service charge for submissions. Submissions that are not accompanied by this service charge will not be considered.
For prose, submit one story or essay. (You may submit both a story and an essay if you wish; please submit them separately.) We rarely publish work that is longer than 10,000 words, though we will consider it.
Translation
We accept submissions of translations in all genres online through our submissions manager. The online submission form can be found at submissions.thesouthernreview.org. Please note that there is a $3 service charge for submissions. Submissions that are not accompanied by this service charge will not be considered.
Please submit only one translated story, essay, or packet of poems at a time. We request that each translation is accompanied by a statement indicating that the English translation rights are available as well as a copy of the original text. We do not consider novel excerpts unless they stand alone so flawlessly that we cannot tell that they are excerpts.
Payment
The Southern Review pays $50 for the first printed page and $25 for each subsequent printed page with a maximum payment of $200, plus two copies of the issue in which the work appears, and a one-year subscription to The Southern Review.
