The Georgia Review welcomes submissions both online and by post from August 15 to May 15. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts outside this period.
All manuscripts receive serious, careful attention; each submission is read by a published writer in a salaried position at The Georgia Review. We aim to respond to submissions within ten months. Committed to supporting authors at all stages in their careers, The Georgia Review pays contributors. Subscribers can submit for free during our general submissions period (excluding contests); general paper submissions by mail are also free (aside from the cost of postage).
Work previously published in any form will not be considered. Please tell us in your cover letter if your submission is simultaneously being considered elsewhere, and please let us know immediately if your work is accepted by another publication. Likewise, please notify us if any part of your submission is known to be included in a book already accepted by a publisher (include the anticipated date of book publication).
We do not publish work by current University of Georgia students.
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Paper Submissions
General paper submissions do not require a submission fee. All paper manuscripts must include a cover letter with your name, mailing address, email address, and phone number. If you’d like to receive our decision by mail, your submission must be accompanied by a postage-paid and self-addressed return envelope. If you would prefer to receive notice of our decision via email (and forgo a return of your manuscript), please indicate this preference in your cover letter. Submissions should be addressed to:
The Editors
The Georgia Review
706A Main Library
320 S. Jackson St.
The University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-9009
Online Submissions
Online submissions should be sent to our Submittable account. Each general submission requires a $3 processing fee, with an exception for current subscribers to The Georgia Review, who may submit online at no cost. Subscribers: Please email garev@uga.edu to receive a link to submit for free, providing the genre of the work to be submitted and your full name and address (including zip code).
Payment and Copyright
The Georgia Review‘s current pay rates for our print issues are $50 per printed page for prose and $4 per line for poetry, up to $800. In addition, all contributors receive two copies of the issue their work appears in and a 50% discount on additional copies of that issue.
The Georgia Review buys first North American serial rights only. All other rights revert to the author at publication, but we offer formal, written reassignments upon request. We ask that whenever an author reprints work that first appeared in our pages, The Georgia Review be given acknowledgment for the specific work(s) involved.