We accept submissions year-round, and we are always reading submissions! We are working on catching up on submissions.
We accept photography, art, comics, creative nonfiction, fiction, flash fiction, experimental work, and poetry.
To submit to The Magnolia Review, send your work via an attachment to our email: themagnoliareview@gmail.com. In the body of the email, include your cover letter and a brief third person biography (85 words or less).
We do not respond to queries.
Writers and Artists:
- Please remove your name and contact information.
- We do read simultaneous submissions, but if your work is accepted elsewhere, notify us immediately. If we want to publish this work, we will print with second serial rights. We will need the name of previous publications if we accept work that has been published elsewhere.
- We have modified our reprint guidelines. We now accept previously published work, be it in print or online. Please inform us during submission which pieces are available as first serial rights and which are available as second serial rights. We will need the name of previous publications if we accept work that has been published elsewhere.
Artists, Comics, and Visual Narrative Artists:
- Please send your work in jpegs at 300 dpi, in a zip file if necessary. If you have questions, please email themagnoliareview@gmail.com.
- Don’t worry about removing personal information from your submission.
- Please send art as jpeg or tiff files with a minimum ppi of 300. Other file types will be rejected immediately. We prefer tiff files.Google Drive is acceptable to submit your work.
- If you’re a student of Theresa Williams’ Graphic Novel Workshop at BGSU, please feel free to send your zines, exercises, composition book pages, etc.
Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Writers:
- Please remove your name and contact information from the document.
- We will look at a maximum of three short stories, 5 flash fictions, or a combination of the two.
- Send word files as a Word Document or PDF. We prefer Word Documents.
- We love Times New Roman with 12 point font, double spaced preferable.
Poets:
- Please remove your name and contact information from the document.
- We will look at a maximum of eight poems. We highly encourage sending at least six poems.
- Please put all of your poems in one file.
- Send word files as a Word Document or PDF. We prefer Word Documents.
- We love Times New Roman with 12 point font, single spaced preferable.
- Please put each poem on a separate page.
- Please list the title of each poem in your submission email.
Cover Letter Example:
Dear The Magnolia Review Editor,
Thank you for considering my poetry submissions “Water Inside,” “The Golden Rule,” “You are a prophet,” and “He has a name” for inclusion in The Magnolia Review. Below is a brief biography of my writing.
Suzanna Anderson studied creative writing at Bowling Green State University. She participates in National Novel Writing Month every year. Her interests also include watercolor, charcoal, and bookbinding. Currently she is the editor-in-chief of The Magnolia Review and the Review Editor at The Odd Ducks.
Suzanna Anderson
(contact information)
The Magnolia Review 
I’m always amazed at how often I’m stymied by something in guidelines. ‘fiction and creative non-fiction writers must remove identifying information from their submission” But the same is not indicated for Poets and Artists. Are we to assume that the same obtains in all cases, or that since it is not explicitly stated one way or the other, that poets can put their contact information with their poems? Like the father on CNN’s SOMEBODY’S GOTTA DO IT commercial, I’m very literal!! LOL!
Thanks
Frank De Canio
Frank, I am very sorry for the confusion. We’ve had more issues with fiction writers leaving identifying information on submissions than poets. Under the group heading “Writers and Artists,” we have requested everyone to remove identifying information. The specific sections give further information. Some poets send us more than six poems at a time. But yes, poets should remove identifying information as our preference is to read all submissions blindly and without bias.
I’m wondering if there is a wod limit on the ficgion or a line limit on the poetry. Can you help?
Susan
We do not have a word limit for fiction or a line limit on poetry. Please only send up to six poems. Thank you!
The guidelines say that you “highly encourage sending at least six poems,” but the maximum is six?
When will you re-open for poetry submissions?
Alan
We are open to all submissions year round.
Great–thanks!
Hello, where do we send the submissions? Thank you!
To submit to The Magnolia Review, send your work via an attachment to our email: themagnoliareview@gmail.com. In the body of the email, include your cover letter and a brief third person biography (85 words or less).
Good morning Kindly clarify the confusion
Should we send poems without our name
Then how will you understand whose poem is it ?
Regards
Kindly reply
As the editor-in-chief, I send the work to my editing team to select work. I track the submissions with a number and log it to identify whose poem it is.
I would like to know the maximum length of the nonfiction articles you would accept. Thank you. Ken Weber
Feel free to send up to six nonfiction articles for us to read, and we will let you know what we would like to publish or decline to publish.
What’s your average response time?
We are catching up on submissions at the moment, so until we are caught up, I can’t say what the average response time is. The goal is to respond to all submissions in less than 2 months.
In addition to fiction and poetry, do you accept submissions for articles in any/all of the magazine sections: reflect, design, food, lifestyle? If so, please specify if you want a pitch or the completed article and if the completed article, the desired word count. THANKS.
We currently are interested in photography, art, comics, creative nonfiction, fiction, flash fiction, experimental work, hybrid work, and poetry. We are not a magazine in food and lifestyle.
Will you review more than one prose piece in a submission? I see that up to 8 poems will be considered, but did not find a statement regarding multiple prose pieces.
We would like a maximum of three short stories or 5 flash fictions.
Is a submission considered a reprint if it was only published in my student-run university magazine? The circulation is only within the university
Yes, we would consider it a reprint since it has appeared elsewhere. We want to celebrate your work and note where it first appeared. This also acknowledges that the piece and writer have reprint rights.
Are submissions open for South Asian writers?
Yes, submissions are open to everyone in the world. We ask that if a piece is bilingual to also include the English translation.
How do I remove personal information and write a bio at the same time?
As the editor-in-chief, I number and track submissions to send to my editing team. I would like the bio in the cover letter or email body, and then the document with the work should not have your name or personal information so the work can be read blindly by the team.
What is your normal response time? I sent a short story submission last April and wonder when I will hear back.
We are catching up on submissions at the moment, so until we are caught up, I can’t say what the normal response time is. We are working from the earliest submissions first. The goal is to respond to all submissions in less than 2 months once we are caught up.
What is the compensation for being published in this publication?
Right now, the only compensation is a free PDF of the issue. We are using sales of physical and Kindle copies of the issue to fund the two free-to-contributors to cover printing and shipping costs. The editor will contact contributors when the two physical copies are available.
Will you accept submissions by print mail? Ken
Maybe one day in the future, but right now, we accept email submissions only.