Submissions

Submission Guidelines

Indiana Review accepts general submissions of unpublished fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from February 1–March 31 and from September 1–October 31. Send us your best "carefully strange" work!

Please view our full guidelines and submit on Submittable. 

We do not accept unsolicited email submissions. We do not accept submissions of artwork nor book reviews.

We strongly encourage you to submit through Submittable. If you are unable to do so, you may mail your manuscript to our office. All mailed submissions should include a self-addressed, stamped envelope and a check with the $3 submission fee made out to Indiana University. We welcome no-fee submissions from incarcerated writers.

We cannot consider work from anyone currently or recently affiliated with Indiana University, which includes those who have studied at or worked for IU in the past 4 years.

If our submission fee presents a hardship to you for any reason, please email us at inreview@indiana.edu to request a fee waiver.

Publishing Details

Indiana Review is published biannually, usually in May and December. We publish about 6–8 stories, 40–60 pages of poetry, and 4–6 nonfiction pieces per issue, as well as occasional art inserts and special folios. We are able to accept less than half of 1% of work submitted. Payment for publication is $5.00 per page ($25.00 minimum) and two contributor copies of the issue in which the work appears. Rights revert to author upon publication, but we ask that Indiana Review be credited if the work is republished elsewhere.

Withdrawing a Submission

If you have submitted a simultaneous submission that is accepted elsewhere or have another reason to withdraw your submission, please withdraw through Submittable. If you need to withdraw a single work from a submission containing multiple pieces, please use Submittable's "Message" feature to send us a message detailing which piece(s) should be withdrawn. We are unable to refund submission fees in the event of a withdrawal.