Submissions are open for Burrow Press Review! Keep reading for general info, then follow the link at the bottom to our Submishmash page for details.

Burrow Press Review. Fiction, flash fiction, novel excerpts, all types of essays–from memoir to lyric essay to personal essay to craft essays to literary journalism–covering all types of cultural and pop-cultural topics. If you are a small press / lit mag and would like your book / issue reviewed, contact Ryan. Also contact Ryan if you’d like to pitch an idea for a column or serial, or any generally strange ideas.

Print Books (closed). Novel, novellas, short story collections, nonfiction collections.

Submission Format. We only read work submitted through our online manager (see below). Also, include contact info, story title, and word count. 12-point, serif fonts are best. Double-spacing helps us, too. You probably know the drill. We’re not all that strict. Just don’t try anything funny.

Content for all of the above. It might be simplest to say we’re looking for literary fiction and creative nonfiction. Though definitions of this tend to vary, we are not looking for anything genre-heavy, as in sci-fi, romance, mystery. The typical MFA story––where developed character A undergoes conflict B and eventually reaches resolution C, perhaps with a nice objective correlative of boughs swaying in the cold breeze to close––is not going to be dismissed outright, but is at a slight disadvantage unless it grabs us from the first paragraph. We like to be both challenged and entertained. We are not above humor and satire. We realize this sounds vague and maybe even a bit dickish, and that if we keep rambling we’ll eventually contradict ourselves, so… please send us your best work.

Simultaneous Submissions. Are okay with us.  Just let us know in your cover letter, or on the first page of the submission, and please email us ASAP (with your name, title of story, and approximate date of submission) if your work is accepted elsewhere.

Submit via Submishmash. We repeat, we will not read submissions sent via e-mail or snail mail. If you do not have a Submishmash account, it only takes a minute to create one. Click the link below to submit.

Thank you. Seriously.  Thank you for submitting to Burrow Press.  We read every submission carefully and appreciate you showing us your work.

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