Nashville Review Is Currently Accepting Poetry And Prose Pieces (Pay: $25/Poetry, $100/Prose)

Nashville Review seeks to publish the best work they can get their hands on. They hope to provide a venue for both distinguished and emerging artists.

They consider submissions in Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Translation in August and February, and they typically respond within 4-5 months.

Also, they welcome submissions in Art and Comics year-round. Currently, they are not accepting unsolicited reviews or interviews.

Submission Guidelines For Nashville Review

There is no fee to submit and they are proud to pay contributors: $25 per poem and $100 for prose and art pieces.
Please do not include any personal or contact information on your manuscript. Prose pieces must be double-spaced and paginated. If your poems use white space in a nontraditional way, they recommend submitting in .pdf format. Please nclude a brief cover letter with the title(s) of your piece(s) and a short third-person bio.
All submissions must be previously unpublished.
They encourage simultaneous submissions: if your work is accepted elsewhere, just leave a note via Submittable as soon as possible so they know the piece has been taken.
Please submit only once per genre, per reading period, and note that they cap the number of submissions to be considered at 750 per section to ensure a reasonable response time. If they reach their submission cap before the end of the month-long reading period, submissions will close early.
Current and former (within 5 years) students and employees of Vanderbilt University are ineligible to submit.
Please visit their online submissions manager (Submittable) to send your work. Submissions received via email will not be read.
For questions, please contact the Editors: thenashvillereview@gmail.com

Fiction Guidelines

They consider short stories and novel excerpts up to 7,000 words, or three flash fiction pieces (1,000 words each) in one document.

Poetry Guidelines

They welcome submissions of 1-3 poems (10 pages total) in one document.

Nonfiction Guidelines

They are looking for creative nonfiction across the spectrum: memoir excerpts, essays, imaginative meditations. Send up to 8,000 words.

Translation Guidelines

The Nashville Review is proud to include Translation as a new submission category from NR 24 onwards! In this category, they are looking for fresh contemporary writing that is currently unavailable to English-language readers—pieces that have been published in their original language, but are previously unpublished in English.