The Pacific Review:
Detailed Guidelines for Submissions
Deadline: February 15, 2012
Submit electronically to:
So you’d like to submit to the Pacific Review? This is a good desire to have—in fact, we encourage this desire so much, we will actually read whatever you send us. Well, most of it. If you don’t want your submission jettisoned before it is read, there are a couple of stingy guidelines to keep in mind before submitting, but as with all art, if it’s that good, we will print it regardless.
Fiction: 25 pages max please. We love novels and novellas and novellettes, but we are a lit journal, not a publishing house. Send your one-act plays, personal essays, memoirs, prose, and stories.
Poetry: 15 pages max please. One poem per page.
What else? you ask. We are looking for fearless engaging work and are open to a variety of formal and narrative modes. Challenge us, surprise us, confound us, help us see. Also when submitting, please include a brief cover letter with your name and complete contact information. If you are a CSUSB student, tell us, we would like to know who our campus contemporaries are. And for Pete's sake, number the pages. If you would like to hear back from our editors, you should send along a stamped, self-addressed envelope.
Work submitted simultaneously to other publications is fine. Just let us know if some other folks accept it. We also do not accept previously published work. All work received after the deadline will be recycled. We here at the Pacific Review love us some trees.
The Pacific Review is published annually in Spring, and will boast the most preposterously interesting material we receive. The Pacific Review is made possible by funds from Instructionally Related Programs, and support from our readers. Don’t be scared to ask for a copy. They are only five dollars, and we have a few back volumes available. Hell, we’ll even throw in the postage for you. All correspondence should be addressed to:
The Pacific Review
Department of English, CSUSB
5500 University Parkway
San Bernardino, CA 92407
All rights revert to the authors and artists upon publication unless otherwise stated. We reserve the right to reprint all work in subsequent issues. The Pacific Review is indexed by the American Periodical Verse and the MLA International Bibliography.