Great River Review Issue 73, Fall 2025: submissions accepted until cap reached.

For our Fall 2025 issue, we are welcoming fiction submissions of up to 7,000 words. Please submit only one fiction piece for the Issue 73 submission period. Additional submissions after your first one will be automatically declined.

• We are looking for fully embodied stories that remind us of what it means to be alive, that show us something new, and that stand up over many reads, deepening each time.
• Works of translation are welcome.
• We accept only .docx file types. Unless special formatting is absolutely required, please submit your work in Times New Roman, 12 pt font, double spaced, with page numbers. Work that does not meet these criteria will not be reviewed.
• Please also include a brief biography with your submission (400 characters max).

Great River Review Issue 73, Fall 2025: submissions accepted until cap reached.

For our Spring 2025 issue, we are welcoming nonfiction submissions of up to 7,000 words. Please submit only one nonfiction piece for the Issue 73 submission period. Additional submissions after your first one will be automatically declined.

• We seek nonfiction that bends—but doesn't break—the genre.
• We appreciate risk-taking with structure, chronology, form, and other elements of nonfiction (save for truth—there’s no messing with that) that tell a richly textured story.
• We are open to memoir that goes beyond the personal story to engage with larger ideas through the use of research, multiple narrative voices, and chronological deviations.
• Nonfiction will be fact-checked.
• Works of translations are welcome.
• We accept only .docx file types. Unless special formatting is absolutely required, please submit your work in Times New Roman, 12 pt font, double spaced, with page numbers. Work that does not meet these criteria will not be reviewed.
• Please also include a brief biography with your submission (400 characters max).

Great River Review Issue 73, Fall 2025: submissions accepted until cap reached.
 

• Please submit in one file a portfolio of 3-6 poems (up to 10 pages), with each poem on its own page(s). Please only submit a single poetry portfolio for Issue 73. Additional portfolios submitted to GRR will be declined without being read.
• Send visual poems in this category as well. 
• Works of translation are welcome.
• We accept only .docx or .pdf file types. Unless special formatting is required, please submit your work in Times New Roman, 12 pt font, double spaced, with page numbers. 
• Please also include a brief biography with your submission (400 characters max).