Submissions to The Ilanot Review
The theme of our Fall 2016 edition is:
Theft
General submissions for our “Theft” issue are now closed. But you can enter our Flash Story Contest until September 15! Click here for more details.
Guest Editor for Fiction: Karen E. Bender
Guest Editor for Creative Nonfiction: Jacqueline Kolosov
Send us your best imitations, translations, lines lifted from the unsuspecting and unaware… or talk about loss of identity, love, memory, culture… Take us somewhere new!
Flash Story Contest (with Israel Story)
We are excited to announce that for our Theft issue we are teaming up with the radio show, Israel Story, to hold a flash fiction/non-fiction story contest. Click here for more details.
General Submissions
We invite submissions in the following categories. One submission per category, and if you’ve been published in the current issue, please hold off an issue before re-submitting.
Poetry: Up to four poems – Please submit all work + bio in a single Word file. Submit up to four poems, with one poem per page. Please include your name and contact information on each page.
Fiction: We prefer stories that don’t exceed 3500 words.
Creative Nonfiction: We prefer work that is less than 3000 words long.
Cover Art: Up to six images per submitter
Graphic Art: Photo essays/graphic poetry/prose
We welcome work that challenges conventions of form, style and content.
We are happy to consider translations of original work, providing the translator has obtained permission from the author. Be sure to include the original poem/story in Word format.
- We only consider work that has not been previously published. This includes internet venues, blogs and self published work.
- Please include a short bio (50 -75 words) with your submission.
- We will consider simultaneous submissions but ask that you retract your work immediately if it is accepted for publication elsewhere.
- If your work appears in our current issue, we kindly ask that you refrain from submitting to our upcoming issue.
- We retain first serial rights. At the time of publication, all rights revert back to the author. However, The Ilanot Review retains the right to publish the piece(s) in any subsequent issue or anthology, whether in print or online. Should you decide to republish the piece elsewhere, we ask that you cite The Ilanot Review as a place of previous publication and provide our web address.
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