The Pacific Review:

Detailed Guidelines for Submissions

Deadline: January 15, 2010

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: 7,500 words 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: 20 pages max please. One poem per page.

Art work: Send original work, but we wouldn’t advise sending originals of original work. We have a few clumsy, twenty fingered types on the staff, and it wouldn’t be a stretch at all to say you’ll get it back with coffee stains you didn’t put there. JPGs are probably more advisable, which you can email to prolixmuse@gmail.com.

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 god’s sake, number the pages. It takes five or six clicks, depending on your arduous method. 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 A-OK. 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. It gets hot in San Bernardino.

The Pacific Review will be published in the spring of 2010, 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.