Saranac Review

To celebrate our fifteenth anniversary issue, Saranac Review is featuring a special thematic section on “The Wild.” Send us fiction, poetry, nonfiction and one-act plays that explore this trope from any related perspective, whether approaching it from external or internal scapes, or creating purposeful subversions of standard definitions. Send us your best take on “The Wild.” Please follow our basic guidelines for these submissions.

Please submit only 1 submission.  We're looking for short dramatic pieces, one act plays and flash drama, on any topic.  Work that holds up on the page but can easily be visualized on stage.  Work with memorable characters that moves as it edifies.  

Submit one story no longer than 7,000 words (anything longer will be rejected immediately).  We read flash fiction.  We're looking for well crafted fiction that demonstrates respect for and love of language.  Fiction that makes us feel and think, that edifies without being didactic or self-indulgent, and ultimately connects us to our sense of humanity.  

Submit 1 piece per submission.  We're interested in creative non fiction,  excerpts from memoirs, and inter genre pieces.  SR does not publish academic essays or reviews.   We lean towards non fiction that approaches any topic from a unique perspective and can deliver to readers fresh insights.  We do not want informational prose, but rather penetrating, literary writing that informs.

Submit from 3 to 5 poems per submission, but no longer than 10 pages maximum.  We're open to most forms and styles.  We want poetry that to paraphrase Dickinson, blows the top of your head off and that in Williams' view, prevents us from dying miserably every day. 
****To withdraw poem(s) from the submission and not the whole submission, please email saranacreview@plattsburgh.edu with title [Manual Withdrawal] or message us via http://www.saranacreview.com/contact.php . Please do not use any quotation mark if you choose the latter. Thank you.****