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 Online Craft Series
Marked by our dedication to inclusive excellence, this new craft 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.
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 seeks creative or critical-creative writing, in any prose format or genre, with the text closely connected to an image or a scene from Agnès Varda’s 2000 film The Gleaners & I. (Original artwork will also be considered: Please limit artwork to black and white images for submission to the print journal.) The text should contain a description of the selected image or scene from the film, and can be any length from 30 to 3,000 words. Fitting responses might include, but are not limited to: meditations on memorable viewings where you watched or rewatched the film in a particular location or with a particular audience; a love letter (to the filmmaker, the subjects, or others) inspired by rewatching the movie; an imaginary deleted scene or alternate ending; an autobiographical sketch based on a memory that emerged during a screening; travel writing related to the film; an ekphrastic short story or prose poem that is clearly connected to the film; a personal essay that incorporates film criticism in the frame; comic book panels, imagined storyboards, or a graphic novel format that takes in cinematic images; a drawing that embellishes on an image from the film. Submissions open through June 15, 2026. This special feature will be edited by NER contributing editor J. M. Tyree.