Asian American Literary Review's Reading Period Now Open

03 June 2010
Asian American Literary Review's Reading Period Now Open
Please note that we are not accepting submissions for our first two issues, due out in April and September 2010, respectively. Any submissions will be under consideration for spring 2011 and beyond.

Our reading period is June 1 to September 1. Unfortunately we will not be able to respond to material submitted outside of that period. Please see our mission statement and first issue for a sense of our literary preferences. Simultaneous submissions are okay, but please indicate if you are submitting the same work elsewhere, and please notify us immediately if you place it elsewhere.

Please submit work as a Microsoft Word compatible document attachment. Title the document in the following fashion: last name, first name, genre, title (e.g. Far.SuiSin.Fiction.IntheLandoftheFree). Include a brief biographical note with your query letter. Previously unpublished material only. Standard response time is 4-6 weeks, but please bear with us if we take longer to reply. Please limit submissions to 1 per calendar year.

All submissions should be directed to poetry@aalrmag.org or prose@aalrmag.org.

Fiction: 1 text, up to 5,000 words
Poetry Folios (and translations): 6-9 pages
Creative nonfiction: 1 text, up to 5,000 words
Comic art, interviews, and book reviews are by solicitation only.

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