Colorado Review - Fiction
(Poetry) (Nonfiction)
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.
Submitting to this market is tied to subscription to a promotional newsletter: either they will subscribe you to the newsletter when you submit, or you must be a subscriber to submit.
Market Submission Schedule
- Submission Window - Aug 1, 2025 thru Mar 31, 2026 (Ends 139 days from now)
Market Genres
Genres
GeneralMarket Types, Lengths & Pay Scale
Originals
Short Story
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 40 completed reports in the past 12 months.
Averages and Boundaries:
Min: 17 | Average: 54.94 | Median: 56 | Max: 83
Responded:
95.00%
Accepted:
-
Rejected:
95.00% - avg 54 days
(5.26% of rejections are personal)
Rewrites:
-
Dead Letters:
-
Lost/Returned:
-
Never Responded:
-
Withdrawn:
5.00%
Pending:
There are 8 pending responses.
(9 min | 52.50 average | 49 median | 99 max days waiting)
Note: pending statistics may skew high if some users neglect their data.
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Listing added: 22 January 2013
Last officially checked: 16 February 2025