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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
1 June through 1 November 2008
Barn Owl Review welcomes submissions for its 2009 issue. We are a handsomely designed print journal of poetry, literary fiction, and critical prose, and we are looking for work that takes risks while still connecting with readers. We aim to publish the highest quality work from both emerging and established writers. Barn Owl Review 2 will be released in February 2009 at the AWP bookfair in Chicago. Though Barn Owl Review is a print journal, submissions are only taken electronically. Please follow our guidelines carefully.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Submit your manuscript as a word attachment or rtf with [Poetry, Fiction, or Essay] Submission: NAME as an email subject line (for example, 'Poetry Submission: Emily Dickinson'). Include contact information in the attachment.
A cover letter with contact information is required, and should be pasted into your email message and addressed to the appropriate editors. Please note your attachment's name in the body of your cover letter. We are unable to open attachments that are not specified as such.
Simultaneous submissions are welcome with immediate notification of acceptance elsewhere; no previously published work, please. Barn Owl Review will provide pre-publication galleys of accepted work.
POETRY: Submit 3-5 poems (in a single attachment) to the attention of the poetry editors. Barn Owl Review favors no particular poetic style or school. We are interested in poems with a strong narrative or lyric presence by poets who understand the energy of their own line, poems with a keen eye toward modern poetry. Please do not send submissions of inspirational/greeting card verse.
FICTION: Submit 1-3 short shorts (1,000 w. or less) in a single attachment OR one short story (5,000 w. maximum) to the attention of fiction editors. Barn Owl Review is looking for risk takers of a literary quality. We will publish fiction that exhibits control of character, pace, and setting, while ensuring that risks are rewarded. Puzzle box fiction that plays with elements only for its own sake will fare far worse than a straightforward, well-told story. Although we understand the place for genre fiction in the grand scheme of things, it is not for us.
CRITICAL PROSE: Submit critical work (5,000 w. maximum) to the attention of Adam Deutsch. We're specifically interested in essays on craft and the writing life as well as explorations into the culture and larger contexts of creating art in the contemporary world. Though usually considered to be solely produced by academia, the ideas expressed in these pieces are not under the ownership of any educational institution. We encourage and welcome prose of the vocational academic as well as the blue-collar scholar and those guided by the production of art, regardless of the notions of tenure tracks, book sales, and/or the prevailing winds of fickle audiences. That being said, please use MLA format for citations in this work.
REVIEWS: We are not currently accepting unsolicited reviews, though we do welcome review copies of books. Email Reviews Editor Jay Robinson for a postal address. We are especially interested in reviewing first books and small press titles.