Submission Guidelines for Writers also see guidelines for COVER ARTISTS WRITERS: New England Review is published four times a year. Our submissions period is September 1 through May 31 (postmark dates) only. Any submissions that arrive during the summer will be returned unread. We consider short stories, short-shorts, novellas, and self-contained extracts from novels; long and short poems; interpretive and personal essays; screenplays, dramatic works, translations, critical reassessments, interviews, cultural criticism, and letters from abroad. Please do not combine genres in the same envelope, and do not submit work that has been published previously elsewhere, whether in print or on the web. Prose: We do not have a word limit for prose pieces. Please send just one piece at a time, unless the pieces are very short. We will consider prose submissions that have been offered simultaneously to other publications, as long as you make it clear that it is a simultaneous submission and withdraw your submission immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. We attempt to respond to all prose submissions within twelve weeks, though we are not always able to do so. Poems: send no more than six at once. We no longer accept simultaneous submissions in poetry. We consistently respond to poetry submissions within twelve weeks. After twelve weeks have passed, you may query as to the status of your submission; e-mail queries are preferred, but you may also query by mail (include SASE) or phone. We do not currently accept electronic submissions. All manuscripts should be printed in standard type and should be clean and legible. Never send your only copy; we cannot be responsible for lost or damaged manuscripts. Please address your submission to Prose, Fiction, or Poetry Editor, New England Review, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753. If you don’t need your manuscript returned, enclose a letter-size self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) for our reply only; we recycle unreturned manuscripts. If you would like your manuscript returned, enclose an SASE that is large enough and carries enough U.S. postage to return your manuscript and our reply. Overseas contributors should include international reply-paid coupons; when those are not available or if they are prohibitively expensive, please indicate that on your cover letter and query for response by email when twelve weeks have passed. Please do not send another submission until you’ve received a response about the first. Additional manuscripts will be returned unread. We cannot accommodate revisions or forgotten SASEs. A contract is sent upon acceptance, and payment is ten dollars per page, twenty dollars minimum, upon publication, plus two copies of the issue in which your work appears. Authors receive pre-publication galleys. We obtain first serial rights, with copyright reverting to the author upon publication, but New England Review retains the right to publish and reproduce the work in print and electronic or website publications, in the original format or as part of an anthology or compilation, and to authorize third-party online databases that reprint NER materials to publish and reproduce the work. We look forward to hearing from you! Home | News and Notes | Current Issue | Archives | Order