Submissions
We publish fiction, poetry, and reviews, and we accept submissions year-round. Please read our guidelines before submitting or pitching us.
We are currently reading for Issue 5, which will be published at the end of October, 2018. The deadline for consideration for this issue is October 1, 2018.
Fiction
We publish fiction from 1 to 10,000 words long. We will consider stories longer than 10,000 words, but they need to earn their length.
We pay $20 per story. If your story is longer than 1000 words, please submit only one story. If your pieces are less than 1000 words, feel free to submit several pieces at once. Please submit only once per reading period and wait for a response before submitting again. We are looking for innovative short fiction from diverse voices. Our preference is for the strange, the experimental and the boundary-pushing, but we are open to a wide range of styles and voices. In addition to our core editorial team, we have several reading groups who select stories for publication, so every issue reflects multiple editorial perspectives. The best way to find out if your story is a good fit for the journal is to submit it. Send submissions as attachments to thetemzreview[at]gmail[dot]com with the subject line “fiction submission.” Please include your name, the title of the story (or stories), the word count and a brief bio in your email. All submissions should be PDF or Word files, and they should be double spaced, in a conventional font with numbered pages. Please include your name and contact information in the file. |
Poetry
We accept submissions of 1-8 poems depending on the length of the poems.
We prefer poetry submissions to be 10 pages or less. You can certainly send us longer submissions, particularly if you are submitting a long poem, but longer submissions need to earn their length. We pay $20 per batch of poems we publish. Our preference is for innovative verse that pushes the boundaries of poetry, but, just as with our fiction, we are open to a wide range of styles and voices. In addition to our core editorial team, we have several reading groups who select poems for publication, so every issue reflects multiple editorial perspectives. The best way to find out if your poetry is a good fit for the journal is to submit it. Please submit only once per reading period and wait for a response before submitting again. Send submissions as attachments to thetemzreview[at]gmail[dot]com with the subject line “poetry submission.” Please include your name, the title(s) of the poem(s), and a brief bio in your email. All submissions should be PDF or Word files, and they should be in a conventional font with numbered pages. Please include your name and contact information in the file. |
ReviewsWe are looking for reviews of small press Canadian titles and works in translation. Our preference is for reviews of fiction and poetry, and we like reviews to be on the longer side—1500 words or thereabouts.
We pay $20 per review. Please query us in advance before submitting a review. Send queries to thetemzreview[at]gmail[dot]com. |
Note:
We accept simultaneous submissions providing you notify us if/when the submission is accepted elsewhere.
We do not accept anything (fiction, poetry or review) that has been published elsewhere.
We accept simultaneous submissions providing you notify us if/when the submission is accepted elsewhere.
We do not accept anything (fiction, poetry or review) that has been published elsewhere.