New England Review invites submissions in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, drama, and translations in every genre.
We welcome and encourage submissions from writers of every nationality, race, religion, and gender, including writers who have never been affiliated with an MFA program and whose perspectives are often underrepresented in the literary world.
See our website for details about open submissions periods.
Thank you for submitting to New England Review!
Staging Style: A Quarterly Craft Essay Series
Marked by our dedication to inclusive excellence, this new craft essay series serves as a learning resource for all and another extension of our commitment to creating new literary legacies.
Staging Style presents innovative writers, translators, and critics articulating the influences and impulses that have sharpened their thinking and writing minds. We are seeking brief essays, 900 to 2,000 words, that trouble the conventional prescriptiveness of “craft” and instead illuminate the infinite possibilities beneath questions of style, time, sound, form, voice, character, image, setting, risk, genre, etc. Have questions about what we're looking for? Check out our Staging Style FAQ.
Please include a brief bio (no more than 150 words) in your cover letter.
If your work is accepted for publication, you will receive a one-year subscription to NER (or a subscription renewal for current subscribers) plus a payment of $100.
Edited by Leslie Sainz.
New England Review is assembling a folio on new writing from Japan, in English translation, guest edited by Stephen Snyder and Allison Markin Powell.
We are looking for flash fiction, zuihitsu, short essays, and poetry (linked or otherwise), with a preference for authors whose work has not been widely published in translation.
Appropriate length is up to 1,500 words for prose, or up to three poems.
Works can be submitted by translators or writers. Before submitting, translators should first determine whether English-language rights are available for first serial U.S. and electronic publication.
Writers and translators must affirm that the work submitted is their own, and not the product of artificial intelligence tools, software, or generators.
Please include the following in a single file by the deadline of Monday, November 30, 2026.
- Text in English translation. Prose should be double-spaced. While all formats are acceptable, if you are concerned about formatting, please submit as a PDF file.
- Include the original text along with your translation.
- Include short bios of both the original author and translator(s). We accept translations by one or more translators.
- Previously published translations are not eligible.
- Multiple submissions permitted; please no more than one per genre, per translator.
New England Review’s standard honorarium rate for work published in the journal is $20/page ($50 minimum), plus two copies of the issue in which the work appears. The issue is scheduled for publication in Summer 2027.