Submissions

The submission period is now CLOSED and will re-open in August.

Little Patuxent Review is a community-based publication focused on writers and artists from the Mid-Atlantic region, but all excellent work originating in the United States will be considered. (Sorry, we cannot accept international submissions.)

Although our issues are organized around themes, we allow considerable leeway in how contributors interpret them in order to ensure access to the broadest range of high-quality work.

We recommend that you look over at least one issue to determine whether your work is appropriate for our publication. You can purchase the current copy online or at various local outlets. You can also view videos of readings in the Issue 7. Winter 2010, Issue 9. Winter 2011 and Issue 10. Summer 2011 sections of this site. And, for those of you in the Baltimore-Washington area, you can join us for the January 28 launch reading of the Winter 2012 Social Justice issue to see for yourselves what we’re about.

General Format

Poetry and Prose Submissions

You may submit one piece of fiction, non-fiction or creative non-fiction up to a maximum of 3500 words in length or one to three poems. All submissions must be identified with the genre of the submission, the submitter’s name and pseudonym (if any), word count for prose pieces and complete contact information. Please include a 75-word bio, written in the third person.

Poetry and prose must be typed using a standard, legible font (i.e, the equivalent of 12-point Times New Roman) with flush-left margins and submitted as a single .doc, .docx, .pdf, .rtf or .txt file. (Submit all poems as one electronic file.)

Art and Photography Submissions

We request that artists and photographers submit a portfolio of four to six images as a single submission. All submissions must be identified with the submitter’s name and pseudonym (if any), complete contact information, a curriculum vitae and a link to the submitter’s website, if available.

Artwork and photography must be submitted as .jpeg or .tif files no larger than 5mb.

Restrictions

While we occasionally reprint previously published work, all unsolicited submissions must be unpublished, either in print or online. We accept work that is simultaneously submitted to other journals as long as it is identified as such and you promptly inform us of acceptance elsewhere. We do not accept multiple submissions or work submitted before we have notified you of our decision about pieces under review.

Submission Procedure

We do not accept submissions sent by standard mail or email. Please use Submittable, our electronic submission manager, by clicking on the following link:

Submit to Little Patuxent Review

Deadlines and Themes

The submission period is now CLOSED and will re-open in August.

Notification and Queries

Expect three to five months for a decision. If you have not heard from us in that time, check your Submittable account. If you still have a question, contact us by email at editor@littlepatuxentreview.org.

Compensation and Publication Rights

Regrettably, we cannot provide monetary compensation for work published in LPR. If we publish your work, we will give you one copy of the issue in which your work appears and the opportunity to read or discuss your work at the issue’s launch event. When we accept a piece, we obtain first-publication rights only.