Description
Note: if your work has been published in Colorado Review, wait two years before submitting again.
We consider short fiction and personal essays with contemporary themes (no genre fiction or literary criticism).
We consider short fiction and personal essays with contemporary themes (no genre fiction or literary criticism).
This market charges a fee of $3.00 to submit.
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Market Types, Lengths & Pay Scale
General
creative nonfiction
Originals
3750 to 6250 words
$300/piece
Essay
personal essay
Originals
3750 to 6250 words
$300/piece
Review
we’re interested in reviews of books from small, independent publishers and university presses, and books from new and emerging writers. We accept previously unpublished reviews of poetry and short story collections, novels, and literary nonfiction that, generally, have come out within the last year.
Originals
750 to 1000 words
Non-Paying
Memoir
Originals
3750 to 6250 words
$300/piece
Market Submission Types
AI Submissions?: Unknown Policy
Electronic Submissions?: Yes
Postal Submissions?: No
Multiple Submissions?: No
Simultaneous Submissions?: Yes
Translations: Original Language and Translations
Estimated Response: 90 days
Electronic Submissions?: Yes
Postal Submissions?: No
Multiple Submissions?: No
Simultaneous Submissions?: Yes
Translations: Original Language and Translations
Estimated Response: 90 days
Market-Provided Data
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Market Response Data (User-Reported)
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This statistical information is an aggregation of submission data provided by our members. The more data we have the more accurate our
numbers will be so please be sure to log all of your submissions here and not just your rejections or acceptances.
numbers will be so please be sure to log all of your submissions here and not just your rejections or acceptances.
Count:
There are 2 completed reports in the past 12 months.
Averages and Boundaries:
Min: 24 | Average: 50.50 | Median: 50 | Max: 77
Responded:
100.00%
Accepted:
-
Rejected:
100.00% - avg 50 days
(50.00% of rejections are personal)
Rewrites:
-
Dead Letters:
-
Lost/Returned:
-
Never Responded:
-
Withdrawn:
-
Pending:
There are 0 pending responses.
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Listing added: 16 February 2025
Last officially checked: 16 February 2025