The Suburban Review Issue #39: Submit
Submit to The Suburban Review Issue #39: CLIMATE
The Suburban Review, Deadline: August 3, 2025 | 5:00 p.m. AEDT
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The climate is shifting—ecologically, socially, emotionally—and The Suburban Review wants your take.
Submissions are now open for Issue #39: CLIMATE, and the editorial team is seeking work that explores temperature in all its forms: heatwaves, cold shoulders, political pressure, cultural atmospheres, or emotional storms. They want your essays, your speculative fiction, your poetic droughts, your artistic floodings.
Theme Prompt:
What are you weathering?
What’s pressurizing your atmosphere? What does the climate of your body, community, or land feel like? From glacial prose to blazing poetry—if it smolders or storms, send it in.
Submission Guidelines for The Suburban Review
Submit only one piece or category per reading period. All work must be original and unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are allowed—just notify the team if accepted elsewhere (email: submissions@thesuburbanreview.com, subject: “Withdrawing submission”).
Visit the full guidelines here: thesuburbanreview.com/submit
Genres & Word Counts
FICTION
- 2000–2500 words — $450
- 1000–2000 words — $375
- 500–1000 words — $300
CREATIVE NONFICTION
- 1250–2000 words — $400
POETRY
- Suite of 3 poems (max) — $550
- One poem over 30 lines — $375
- One poem under 30 lines — $300
COMICS & ART
- 2-page comic (B&W or colour) — $300
- 1-page illustration (B&W or colour) — $200
- 1-page cover art — $300
Please make sure poetry submissions include all three poems in a single document.
Level Up Your Work
Want to sharpen your piece before submitting?
Read: Showing vs Telling: How Writers Can Balance Action and Emotion
Browse: The Best Short Stories to Read Online Right Now
These resources can help make your story stand out in the slush pile.
About The Suburban Review
The Suburban Review is a quarterly digital journal publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and art from writers around the world. Their issues are consistently fresh, socially engaged, and visually stunning.
Submit by August 3, 2025.
