Sycamore Review Now Accepting Online Submissions

07 August 2010
Sycamore Review Now Accepting Online Submissions
Deadline: 31 March 2011 (reading cut-off)
Geographical coverage: USA, elsewhere
Reading Fee: n/a
Accepts (genre): poetry, prose, nonfiction
Prize/Payment: undisclosed
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(Note: Sycamore Review is ranked 129th in our List of Best Literary Journals.)

Big changes at Sycamore Review this year! We have a new fiction editor, Conor Broughan, a new non-fiction editor, Chidelia Edochie, and, when our reading period begins on August 1st, we will be accepting submissions via our new online submission manager.

Switching to online submissions will make us a much more efficient journal. It will help us read and respond faster to your work by eliminating some of the busy work necessary to process snail mail submissions, and allow us to devote more time and energy toward making sure each issue of Sycamore Review is better than the last.

We recognize that some or our submitters might have their manuscripts packed and ready to drop in the mail on August 1st, so we will still accept submissions via snail mail until August 15th. But afterward, all submissions should be made through the submission manager.

Submission Guidelines

Reading Period: August 1 – March 31. Submissions sent at other times will go unread.

Sycamore Review is looking for quality, original poetry, fiction, non-fiction and art. The most successful work is exciting, new, fresh, creative, carefully-wrought. We accept unsolicited submissions of fiction, poetry, personal essays and art. Please query for other nonfiction, including book reviews, brief critical essays, etc. as well as all art. We are interested in expanding our nonfiction content. At this time we are not able to accept outside interviews, previously published works (except for translations) or genre pieces (conventional science fiction, romance, horror, etc.).

As of August 15, 2010, we will only accept submissions online. To use our online submission manager, click on this link, follow the instructions for creating an account (if you haven’t done so already), and upload your piece. Submissions are limited to one work at a time for fiction and non-fiction, and no more than five poems, which should be included in a single document. Please submit a .doc or .rtf file only and include a cover letter in the comments section. We’d like to know a little bit about you and your work.

We do accept simultaneous submissions, but request prompt notification if the work is accepted elsewhere. Please note simultaneous submissions in your cover letter.

More information here.
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