SUBMIT

Thank you for your interest in submitting work to The Prairie Review.

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We publish four times a year - on the last weekend of February, May, August and November. We accept submissions on a rolling basis. We close issue submissions in the middle of the month of publication.

For consideration for the May 2026 issue, submit by May 10, 2026 (midnight).​ 

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We request material that has not been published elsewhere. We prefer to focus on short forms: short fiction, short criticism (art and literary), and short commentaries. Maximum of about 500 words for prose writing. Translations are an exception. Poem submissions may be any length. 

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Please submit no more than four works at a time, and no less than 2. This does not apply to art submissions which may include a work of art in series (photography, drawing, collage). If you are submitting poetry:

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• all poems, publication ready, in one document (doc, docx, odt or pdf)

• if you write poetry with particular spacing or formatting, please send both a pdf and a word-type file

• only one poem per page

• file name: last name, first name, 4 poems (or 2 poems, or 3 poems, whichever is correct)

• submit only once in a submission period

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Art may be submitted in JPEG files. It should include artist's statement. 

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Email your submissions to editor@theprairiereview.com

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All submissions will be reviewed and considered. We endeavor to keep the wait period short.

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