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Submission Guidelines

Breakwater Review only accepts previously unpublished work and is glad to review simultaneous submissions, but please inform us if your writing is accepted elsewhere.

We publish ONLINE two times per year, in the Spring and Fall. Due to our volume of submissions, we are not able to answer inquiries about the status of your work.

Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

Submissions open year-long
Fee: $3

Please submit your work via our submission manager. Submissions sent via e-mail will not be accepted.

We receive a large number of submissions. Our submission guidelines are set up to facilitate our editorial process. Additionally, we charge a reading fee of $3 for general submissions to help keep Breakwater Review fully operational and to be as accessible to our readers as possible. Please follow the instructions below to enter your submission or your manuscript will be automatically withdrawn:

For poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, please use .pdf, .doc or .docx file formats. Submissions in other formats will not be accepted.
Submit up to 5,000 words of prose or 3 poems per reading period. Please do not exceed the submission limits.
For poems, submit up to 3 poems in a single document with each poem starting on a new page.
If you have multiple short pieces for prose (fiction and creative nonfiction), please include them in one document with the word count for each piece at the top of the respective piece's opening page.

Contests

We hold the annual Peseroff Poetry Contest each spring and annual Breakwater Fiction Contest each fall. For more information about these contests, please visit our contests page.

Visual Art

Submissions open year-long
Fee: Free

Breakwater Review is now seeking Visual Art. We are looking for great cover art (and supplemental work) that will be featured as the look of the issue. Send us your best:

Hand-drawn illustration
Painted prints
Photography
Mixed Media
Digital Compositions

You may submit between one and ten images per entry. We typically will not accept more than two to three images per artist. To ensure high-quality viewing, we ask that images be sized so that at least one dimension meets or exceeds 1000px. at 72ppi. Photos should arrive in .jpg or .png format and under 5mb. We may contact you for a higher-quality print if your work is accepted.

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