SUBMISSION READING PERIOD

Aug. 15, 2012--Jan 23, 2013

We Are Now Closed for Submissions

Poets--Please Enter Our 2013 Poetry Contest:
Crab Creek Review: Contest Guidelines

EMAIL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Fiction: Send up to 3,500-4,000 words, double-spaced. We accept short stories or novel excerpts that can stand alone.

Creative Nonfiction: Send up to 4,000 words, double-spaced. We are interested in creative nonfiction essays on any topic that will engage a general reader; we will also consider excerpts from book-length works, but they must be able to stand alone. At this time we are not accepting book reviews, literary criticism, scholarly articles or straight reportage.

• If you are submitting poetry, submit up to 3 poems.

• If you are submitting fiction or creative nonfiction, submit up to 4,000 words.

• All submissions should be previously unpublished.

• Send your cover letter in the body of the email (not in an attachment). It should include your contact information (please include your mailing address and phone #), a brief bio, and the names of the pieces you are submitting.

• Send your poems, fiction, and creative nonfiction in an MS Word Doc attached to your email. Please send your work in New Times Roman and 12 pt. font. Title your attachment with your full name and the genre of your work: Your Full Name Poetry
  For Poets: please send your 3 poems in one document, not three separate documents.

• Please include your name and contact information on each poem you submit. For fiction and creative nonfiction submissions, please include your name and contact information on the first page of your piece.

• Email your submission to: crabcreeksubmissions@gmail.com
  In the subject line, include the appropriate editor (Poetry Editor, Fiction Editor, Creative Nonfiction Editor) and your full name: Attn: Poetry Editor - Your Full Name Here.

• Should you submit something that is under simultaneous consideration elsewhere, please indicate this in your cover letter, and notify us immediately (crabcreeksubmissions@gmail.com) if it has been accepted elsewhere.

• We aim for a response time between 2 and 5 months. If you haven't heard from us within 3 months, most likely your work has made it to the final round.

• Submissions received outside of the timeframe (Aug. 15th - Mar. 31st) will not be read.

• We ask that you only submit one batch of poems or one prose piece per reading period. If you have already submitted during this reading period (fall-2012 through spring-2013), please do not submit again until the fall-2013 through spring-2014 reading period.
  
  

Our current payment is in the form of one copy of the issue for which your work has been accepted. We buy first rights as well as the rights to use your name and the accepted work (whole or part) on our website. Beyond this use and following publication, rights revert to the author. We ask that Crab Creek Review be acknowledged in any subsequent publication of the work.

Crab Creek Review nominates yearly for the Pushcart Prize and chooses an annual Editors' Prize ($100) for the best poem, short story, or creative nonfiction essay from the two issues published in a given year.

We are proud of our literary magazine and hope you will want to purchase a copy of your own. We encourage you to subscribe!

Thank you for your interest in Crab Creek Review. We look forward to reading your work.