We'll be opening for submissions on September 8!
Please Note: You may submit to more than one genre, but we ask that you submit only once per genre. (If you receive a pass on a submission, please wait until the next open reading period to submit again in that genre.) We do not consider work by current SUNY Plattsburgh students, faculty, or staff.
We accept simultaneous submissions and ask that you notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere.
Saranac Review pays $60 to each contributor whose work is selected and featured.
We will remain open for submissions through October 17.
We hope to be a good home for your beautiful, exciting, and surprising writing and art. (Human-made, not AI generated!) We want to celebrate work by new and emerging writers and artists, especially those traditionally underrepresented in the publishing industry. Send us work you love, and we’ll feel lucky to consider it.
We love short plays, one acts, brief film scripts, riveting scenes, tiny musicals, and all drama that makes characters and their actions and dialogue utterly visual and necessary. Think Annie Baker, Lynn Nottage, and Michael R. Jackson. (We do not publish full-length plays.)
We're looking for your thrilling, moving, and memorable fiction. Your riveting plots, your character-driven shorts, your image-driven flash, your language-obsessed micros. We're up for writing that grabs hold of us from the first sentence and expands what short stories can do. (Under 6,000 words, ideally.)
We're looking for your honest, moving, and memorable nonfiction. Your lyric essays, your braided essays, language-driven shorts, your urgent reflections, your image-obsessed micros. We're up for writing that grabs hold of us from the first sentence and expands what nonfiction can do. (Under 6,000 words, ideally.)
We're looking for poetry that arrests us with its formal inventiveness, its haunting or playful imagery, its investment in the rhythm of each line and stanza. Send us up to five poems in a single document. We're interested in featuring folios of poetry in addition to individual poems.
We're excited about all visual media that reads well in the digital space. We'd love to consider your drawings, paintings, photography, and mixed media, and we are especially interested in short graphic narratives and comics.