big news: we're now accepting submissions!!! send us your best fiction, prose, poetry and translations anytime between now and December 15. happy submitting – we can't wait to read your work ✨📚
Washington Square Review is…
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OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS 🥳
Submit your work! And visit our website for more info on submissions for Issue 53 & our New Voices Award!
Links in our bio!
Send us your poetry, fiction, translations, and creative nonfiction before Feb. 1! Click the link in our bio to head to our website and Submittable page. We look forward to reading your work.
Free submission day TOMORROW! Submit to the New Voices Award, our contest for emerging writers, without paying the fee. We will post the link tomorrow until 11:59 pm ET.
Keep an eye on our Instagram story for more free submission days before the deadline
Need a sign to submit your fiction to our New Voices Award? How about a free submission day…
TOMORROW! We will post the link until 11:59 pm EST.
Visit our website for more details on the New Voices Award.
We are open for submissions to the New Voices Award, our contest for emerging writers! The deadline to submit is January 15th at 5 p.m. ET. Visit our website for more information!
We’ve made the (hard!) decision to not open for submissions this summer/fall. The past few sub periods, we’ve been lucky to receive a great increase in submissions, & we want to carefully consider them all. We plan to re-open this winter & can’t wait to read your words then!
so, we’re trying to make some new literary journal friends! please respond with any journals that you love. we’d love to get to know more about them 😊🐦💕!
It's officially here! Issue 46 is out in the world, and we couldn't be more grateful to our entire team and contributors. We have genre-themed days this entire week, so stay tuned for surprises (and some opportunities to win prizes). Stunning cover art by Madeleine Bialke!
We're thrilled to announce The Washington Square Review's inaugural New Voices Award is open now!
Terrance Hayes will select the winning poet for a $1,500 prize. Send us your poems until *Nov. 15*
DEADLINE EXTENDED📣 The New Voices Award, our contest for emerging writers, will now close on 1/18 at 11:59 pm EST. Keep submitting your fiction! Visit our website for more information.
6 DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT📣
New Voices Award, our contest for emerging writers
Accepting only fiction for this round
$1,500 prize and publication
Submit submit submit!
(Visit our website for more details)
“Linear time is not a reflection of how I feel in this body. I don’t think that past versions of me are gone, and I don’t think that future versions of me aren’t with me right now.”
Check out Charis Caputo’s interview with
@morganapple
, live on our site now! 🐦💕
We’re so thrilled to announce the inaugural winner of the New Voices Award! Andrew Chi Keong Yim’s poems will be featured in our Spring issue along with an interview conducted by Terrance Hayes. Swipe to see our finalists, honorable mentions, & an excerpt from Yim’s poem, “Thaw.”
Washington Square Review is accepting creative nonfiction submissions for the first time! We look forward to considering your creative nonfiction submissions! The deadline is October 15. This is a huge step in our journal’s history, and you may just be a part of it! 🐦💕
"She called me 'darl' and for the longest time I thought she was calling me 'doll' . . . I bet I wouldn't know them now if I passed them on the street."
"Today When I Asked You About a Couple We Knew in Canberra" by Kathy Fish ~Issue 45, Spring 2020
Join us for readings and refreshments Thursday April 25th to celebrate the release of Issue 51! Here’s a sneak peak at the cover art by Woo Hannah.
All are welcome! RSVP here:
Huge congratulations to our Books Editor, JinJin Xu , for the publication of her poetry chapbook, There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife.
Details about the launch event can be found in
@jinxshoe
’s bio!
Don't forget: we're currently accepting submissions! Our open reading period ends on October 15th — so send over your poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or translations soon ⌛️ We love reading new work! 🥳
Last call for submissions! Send us your poetry, fiction, translations, and creative nonfiction before Feb. 1. Click the link in our bio to head to our website and Submittable page. We can't wait to read your work!
Check out our latest online feature: a conversation between
@maslenbode
and
@fannychoir
, author of "Floating, Brilliant Gone," "Soft Science," & most recently, "The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On."
WSR Issue 49 is about to arrive — it’s time to celebrate! 🎉 Please join us the evening of Thursday, May 4 at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers’ House for a reading and party to mark the release of our Summer 2023 issue. RSVP at the link in our bio to reserve your spot!
Hey
#awp2022
! We’re here at booths 641 & 643 with
@NYUCWP
. We need to give Joan Pigion’s friend a name — throw out suggestions here, or stop by and tell us in person!
Washington Square Review
@on_squ
opens for submissions tomorrow! Send me your short fiction with crisp writing, compelling characters and un-boring plot.
Submissions are now open for WSR's next issue! 🤩 Send us your quirky short stories, epic poems, risky nonfiction, and eye-opening translations before October 15. We want to read anything and everything! Link in bio.
Issue 51 will be out TOMORROW! We’ll be celebrating in the evening with some wonderful readings from contributors and refreshments. All are welcome!
RSVP here:
Now live, on our website:
@liwendyxu
reviews "All This Could Be Different," the acclaimed debut novel by
@smathewss
! Head to the link in our bio to give it a read 📚
we are so EXCITED to be accepting creative nonfiction submissions for the first time, EVER!!! 🤩❤️🎉
you have the chance to be a part of a historic moment for us! our deadline is October 15th. our staff looks forward to reading & considering your creative nonfiction pieces! 🐦💕
Our Fall Issue drops next Friday...⏱️Come celebrate with us at our Issue 44 Launch Party on Oct. 25 featuring the incomparable
@NK_Adjei
,
@patriphobe
, and
@hannahtinti
🎉
We have big news! For the first time at Washington Square Review, The Book Reviews Editors are welcoming reviews and pitches of titles of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid works.
Check out our Instagram and Facebook pages for guidelines. Deadline: Ongoing
Who has submissions for us? Head over to and send us your poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction now through Feb. 1! We can't wait to read your beautiful words 🥳
thinking of everyone during this frightening time. I hope that you are doing things that bring you joy, even though things feel heavy. reading is a source of joy for me, and I am grateful to everyone who submits, reads, and makes time for the world of words. thank you 🐦💕
🐦 Submissions for fiction, poetry, translations, and creative non fiction are open through October 15!
You read that right! For the first time, we are accepting creative non fiction submissions! We look forward to reading your work! ✨
ISSUE 44 is out, TODAY 🎉!
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Meet Hannah Tinti (
@hannahtinti
), one of tonight’s featured readers!⠀
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Hannah Tinti is an author, editor, and teacher.⠀
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We can’t wait for the launch of Issue 44 tonight at 7 PM at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House! 🐦💕🥳
Our open reading period ends TOMORROW, October 15th — so send over your poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and translations soon ⌛️ We look forward to considering your work 🐦💕
Pushcart Prize happenings are always so delightful 🛒🏆!
Thank you so much,
@kikipetrosino
, for contributing this beautifully haunting poem to the Washington Square Review 🐦💕!
"This is similar to how I think about poems, their ability to say what is unknown" ~ JinJin Xu. Check out our interview (link in bio) with our Books Editor JinJin Xu and her experience publishing her first chapbook with Radix Media. Congrats, JinJin!
SO much love and work went into Issue 45! We are so grateful to our contributors, staff, and readers who help make the world of words wonderful on a day to day basis 🐦💕