Portland Review submission guidelines and market information
The Portland Review is an active literary magazine that publishes prose, poetry, and art.
Portland Review Submission Guidelines
Submission Address
Portland State University, Box 347
Portland OR 97207-0347
Phone: (503)7254533
Fax:
Submitting Your Work to Portland Review
Before submitting to Portland Review
The Market List recommends you verify the market is active and accepting submissions before sending your manuscript via regular mail. You may verify a market status by either visiting their website, calling their listed phone number, or comfirming via regular mail that the market is still active before sending them your work.
To be sure your submission is appropriate for this market, we recommend you familiarize yourself with Portland Review by reading a sample issue before submitting.
If you have recently submitted to Portland Review or have experience with this market, please submit a comment below. Recent submission response times are always welcome and helpful to other writers.
From the Portland Review guidelines:
Submission Guidelines Details for Portland Review
Market Type: Magazine
Accepts: Avant-garde, Free Verse
Web Address: www.portlandreview.org
From the Guidelines
Portland Review accepts book review submissions from September through April via Submittable.
We are looking for thoughtful, engaging book reviews between 1000-1750 words. Reviews should be for forthcoming or recently published works, within the last two years, of fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, including anthologies, graphic novels, or hybrid works. While we may accept reviews of popular books or authors, we are especially interested in small press and indie titles.
A strong submission will go beyond a mere book summary to show a writer’s engagement not only with the book’s content, themes, and craft, but also with its meaning—aesthetically, politically, or intellectually. We celebrate rich language, thoughtful analysis, and investigation. As a literary journal, we are specifically seeking out creativity in craft rather than strictly academic analysis. Please see examples of reviews we have published previously.
- Please submit completed reviews, rather than pitches. We will respond within 3-6 months.
- Please do not send simultaneous submissions.
- Please disclose any relationship you have to the author of the book you’re reviewing if one exists.
- In your cover letter and at the top of your review, please list the book title, author’s name, press name, publication date, and your name and email address.