Paying Market: The Threepenny Review (pays $400 for fiction, $200 for poem)

26 September 2010
Paying Market: The Threepenny Review (pays $400 for fiction, $200 for poem)
Deadline: before September of every year

We do not read manuscripts in the months of September, October, November, and December, so please do not submit work until after January 1, 2011. At that point we will resume considering mailed-in submissions, and we will also begin allowing online submissions through a new upload process.

Stay tuned for details about the online system. Guidelines for manuscripts are given below.

PLEASE DO NOT EMAIL MANUSCRIPTS. THE ONLY TWO WAYS TO SUBMIT MANUSCRIPTS TO US ARE THROUGH THE MAIL AND VIA OUR (FORTHCOMING) ONLINE SYSTEM. EMAILED SUBMISSIONS WILL SIMPLY BE DISCARDED.

Writers' Guidelines

1. At present The Threepenny Review is paying $400 per story or article, $200 per poem or Table Talk piece. This payment buys first serial rights in our print and digital editions, and the copyright then reverts to the author immediately upon publication.

2. All mailed manuscripts must include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Submissions should be sent to:

The Editors
The Threepenny Review
PO Box 9131
Berkeley, CA 94709

3. We do not print material that has previously been published elsewhere, and we do not consider simultaneous submissions. We do our best to offer a quick turnaround time, so please allow us the privilege of sole consideration during that relatively brief period; writers who do not honor this request will not be published in the magazine.

4. Response time for unsolicited manuscripts ranges from one week to two months. Please do not submit more than a single story or article, or more than five poems, until you have heard back from us about your previous submission.

5. All articles should be double-spaced (except poetry, which can be single-spaced or double-spaced). Critical articles should be about 1500 to 3000 words, stories and memoirs 4000 words or less, and poetry 100 lines or less. Exceptions are possible.

More information here.
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