General Guidelines
As always, The Northville Review seeks magic in the ordinary.
– Simultaneous submissions are encouraged. Let us know as soon as possible if your work is accepted elsewhere.
- If you would prefer to receive a response with commentary, please indicate this in your cover letter. We will do our best to accommodate.
- We will consider reprints if the work has not previously appeared online, and the author owns publication rights. These statements (as well as where the work first appeared) must be provided in your cover letter.
– If your work is accepted, The Northville Review obtains one-time publication rights. We archive published work unless asked to do otherwise. If we seek print anthology rights later, you'll receive a separate request.
– We are a non-paying market, but will snail mail contributors something of interest upon request. And we'll buy you a drink if we meet in person.
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View Your Submissions2nd Annual Poetry for Poetry Haters Issue (October 2010)
(pdf, txt, rtf)This year's Poetry for Poetry Haters issue will be guest edited by Peter Schwartz. His poetry has been featured in such journals as The Collagist, The Columbia Review, Diagram, JMWW, and Opium Magazine. You can find him online at http://www.sitrahahra.com.
Peter says: "Nobody ever seems to talk about meaning anymore. I want sharp, well-crafted poems but I also want them to mean something. Send work that has a message, 3-4 poems of any form or length. It's going to take your best stuff to get these haters off our backs, so dig deep. Thank you."
Please also expect a longer response time than is typical for The Northville Review. We thank you in advance for your patience.
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FICTION
(pdf, doc, txt, rtf, tiff, jpg, gif, mp3, mp4, m4a)3000 word limit
The Northville Review seeks fiction with suburban and/or pop culture aesthetics. We’ve got literary tendencies, but we know better than to write off other genres. Look through our archive to get a sense of what interests us. Be aware that lately we have a particular eye out for humor, irreverence, and experimentation.
You may submit up to 3,000 words at a time. Six flash fictions of exactly 500 words each? No problem. Please use the Query category to query anything with a word count over 3,000 words.
(The Northville Review does not consider work that has appeared on Fictionaut to be previously published. Work posted to our board is NOT considered for publication. Send it here, or not at all.)
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NONFICTION
(pdf, doc, txt, rtf, tiff, jpg, gif, mp3, mp4, m4a)3000 word limit
We’ve made it clear that we like personal essays. We also like reviews, letters, interviews, lists, and other ephemera. We’d REALLY like some opportunities to prove it.
Please use the Query category to query anything with a word count over 3,000 words.
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INSIDE JOKES, EXPLAINED
(pdf, doc, txt, rtf, tiff, jpg, gif, mp3, mp4, m4a)We continually seek work for a regular feature titled "Inside Jokes, Explained." It is what it says on the box.
You'll find previous Inside Jokes at the top of our Archives page, but we are open to interpretations of the concept.
Submissions for this department can be in any format that can be rendered digitally.
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ART/AUDIO/OTHER MULTIMEDIA
(pdf, doc, txt, rtf, tiff, jpg, gif, mp3, mp4, m4a)The Northville Review welcomes submissions in all multimedia forms.
If your submission does not conform to the allowable file formats, please use the Query category to contact us for further instructions. We will probably be able to accommodate nearly anything you send our way, but we want to make sure that we can before you go through the hassle of sending it to us.
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QUERIES
(pdf, doc, txt, rtf, tiff, jpg, gif, mp3, mp4, m4a)Please use this category to submit queries for work of more than 3,000 words, and multimedia items with incompatible file formats.
By "query," we mean "tell us what it’s about, and why it belongs in The Northville Review."
Please do not submit queried work until you've received an invitation to do so.
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HELP WANTED
(pdf, doc, txt, rtf)EDITORIAL READER.
Small online literary magazine seeks even-tempered individual to assist with reading submissions, light editing, light strategizing.
Time commitment: Almost never more than two hours weekly.
Compensation: Appearance on masthead, gratitude/karma, ephemera, many chances to bitch goodnaturedly about all kinds of things.
Non-writers quite welcome to apply.
HOW TO APPLY:
All applications will remain confidential.
Upload an attachment that includes the following:
-- Your name, location, and other information that typically appears in contributor bios and/or alumni magazine class notes.
-- 1-3 works published by The Northville Review that you enjoyed, and why.
-- 1 work published by The Northville Review that you did NOT enjoy, and why.
-- 1-3 authors whose work you feel should appear in The Northville Review, and why. (Any degree of notoriety is fine.)
We look forward to hearing from you!
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