The Suburban Review Issue #40: Submit
Submit to The Suburban Review Issue #40: UNTRUE
The Suburban Review, Deadline: OCT 27, 2025 | 5:00 p.m. AEDT
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In an age of fake news, counterfeits, scammers, and artificial intelligence, the editors are inviting writers to explore how they navigate the layers of deception that define modern life. They seek stories steeped in suspicion, essays built on fallacious logic, and prose that blurs the line between fact and fiction.
The editors want to know what lies beneath the surface—what’s being hidden, what’s been disguised, and what doesn’t quite ring true. They are looking for unreliable narrators, fabricated realities, and artful deceit in language. Whether writers choose to confess or keep their secrets, The Suburban Review dares them to trick, twist, and enthrall with their most convincing untruths.
Theme Prompt:
What’s your truth worth? What stories do you bend, embellish, or invent to survive? Which lies have you loved, and which have betrayed you? From slippery prose to duplicitous poetry—if it deceives, distorts, or dazzles, 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 All work must be original and unpublished.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
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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 October 26, 2025.
