The Maine Review
Literary Magazine
The Maine Review (MeR) is a biannual online literary journal that publishes culturally significant and innovative writing by writers living in Maine, across the country, and around the world.
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Highlights
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: / 142 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: / 1.56%*Chill Subs tracker stats
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
From the editors
Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
What's that?
Expedited submission: When the magazine offers a faster response time for an extra fee
Fiction - 3000 words max
Max words: 3000
Max pieces: 1
Sub Genres: Literary
Submission fee: $ 3
Payment: $ 50
Fiction - 1000 words max
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 3
Sub Genres: Literary
Submission fee: $ 3
Payment: $ 25
Nonfiction - 3000 words max
Max words: 3000
Max pieces: 1
Submission fee: $ 3
Payment: $ 50
Nonfiction - 1000 words max
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 3
Submission fee: $ 3
Payment: $ 25
Poetry
Max pieces: 3
Submission fee: $ 3
Payment: $ 25
Review
Max words: 800
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 1
Submission fee: $ 3
Payment: $ 25
How to submit
Processs
Submittable
Cover letter
Please address cover letters to the appropriate genre editor. In prose submissions, please include your word count in your cover letter.
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
Fiction and Nonfiction Formatting: 12-point Times New Roman font Double-spaced 1” margins Pages numbered Please include the word count in your cover letter One piece of 3,000 words or fewer (though we will consider longer works of exceptional merit) or three flash pieces no more than 1,000 words each Poetry Formatting: 12-point Times New Roman font Single-spaced (or as you would like the poem to appear online) Pages numbered Maximum three poems, no more than five pages total
Author's rights
This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.
Additional info
We do not publish academic papers or news writing. We encourage submissions from writers of all backgrounds, including but not limited to LGBTQIA++ writers, BIPOC writers, female-identifying writers, unpublished writers, writers with disabilities, and economically marginalized writers. Please send only one submission at a time. We do not accept and cannot refund multiple submissions. We frequently open week-long free submission periods.
Tracker statistics
219
Total submissions tracked
142 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
7 days
Fastest response time
513 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 604 days, 827 days, 578 days, 619 days, 840 days
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Submission calls
General
Deadline: Jul 1, 2024
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Rosanna Gargiulo
Editor-in-Chief
Chelsea Jackson
Managing Editor