IU Southeast Review Submission Guidelines
Any person who is an active student during the submission period may submit work.
Submissions may be made in any of the following categories: Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Photography, Art, Graphic Novel excerpt, Book Review, Music Review, and Game Review (Long form or Blurb).
Please send all submissions to . We only accept electronic submission.
- Please send submissions as an attachment.
- In the body of the email include your name and contact information. No personal information should be included in the attached submission.
- Written work should be sent in a Microsoft Office compatible format, preferably .doc or .docx, but we will also accept .rtf, .txt, etc.
- Photographs (or photographs of artwork) should be sent in a high resolution .jpg (or .jpeg) file.
Submissions must be received by midnight of the deadline date. Deadlines are available in the IU Southeast Review Office and the Arts and Letters Office.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted.
It is okay to submit previously published work as long as the author retains the copyright to said work.
You can only submit your own original work.
We hate to be stifling, but, due to space limits in the publication, the following guidelines should be followed for length of submissions for each category:
- Fiction, Hybrid Genres, Unique Works, and Creative Nonfiction must be 5000 words or less.
- Poetry must be under 100 lines.
- We consider Flash Fiction to be anything under 750 words. Anything larger will be classified as Fiction. (though some people choose to shoot for under 500)
- Photographs and Artwork can be any size, but, if selected, will be scaled to fit the publication.
- We would prefer the largest definition image for .jpg submissions
You can submit in multiple categories but please submit no more than two pieces each in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Long Form Book Reviews, Hybrid Genres,and Unique Works, or five pieces each in Poetry, Photography, Flash Fiction, Book Review Blurbs, and Art.
Submissions will be judged blindly by a panel of student editors.
No more than two works by one author will be selected for publication within a single category.
You will be notified by email if your work is accepted. Please do not email us to find out; we will let you know as soon as we have made the final decision.
Submission to the IU Southeast Review gives us permission, upon acceptance of a work, to publish said work in the IU Southeast Review and to use it in promotional materials relating to the IU Southeast Review.
The guidelines above may be amended, only when necessary, at the discretion of the editors.
The author or artist retains the rights to their work after publication.