We are currently open for prose submissions, but our poetry portal is closed until September, 2024.

We are no longer accepting 10-minute plays.

Please read our guidelines before submitting work.

The Westchester Review considers previously unpublished stories, creative nonfiction, and poems by established and emerging writers wherever they reside. We now exclusively publish online issues quarterly.

We welcome submissions from a diverse range of writers, including voices and perspectives that have historically been underrepresented in the literary sphere. Westchester authors are spotlighted in every issue. Past contributors are welcome to submit again.

We do our best to respond to submissions within five months, but please do not query the status of your submission until at least six months have elapsed.

FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS

Thank you for considering The Westchester Review as a possible home for your work. General submissions are free. We consider simultaneous submissions, but kindly notify us if a piece has been accepted elsewhere. Please include a cover letter that lists word count (for fiction and creative nonfiction) along with your name, address, phone number, and email address. If you have a connection to Westchester County, please note it in the applicable field in Submittable.

Please be sure to submit your work through the appropriate portal. Submissions sent through the wrong portal cannot be read.

The Westchester Review is not currently a paying market. Access to our journal is free, and we do not charge for submissions. Our editors and readers are all volunteers. We do our best to promote the work of our contributors via social media.

AI-generated work. We do not accept submissions of AI-generated work. We reserve the right to withdraw acceptances of any work found to be AI-generated, even after publication.

We do not accept translations in any of our categories.

Please do not submit revisions of previously declined work unless directly requested to do so.

FICTION AND CREATIVE NONFICTION

Please submit only one piece at a time and wait until you have received a response regarding your submission before submitting more work to us. All fiction and nonfiction submissions must be double-spaced and should be no longer than 5,000 words. We do not publish excerpts from novels unless they are self-standing. Please do not send work in a PDF format.

POETRY

We like to publish an eclectic mix of poems in each issue, and we look for carefully crafted poems that use language in unexpected ways. We publish both free verse and poems that adhere to forms. Please note that we do not accept translations. To get a good idea of what we like to publish, be sure to read our online quarterly issues.

Please submit 3-5 poems that represent your best work in one Word .doc or .docx file (please do not submit in a PDF format). Use Times New Roman size 12 font and begin each poem on a new page. Do not underline titles or put them in bold.

Remember to proofread your work carefully so that it looks the way you would like it to appear. If your poem(s) require special formatting, we may not be able to accommodate them in our online issues, but we will try our best! Poems that are accepted will be published as is; we can not consider revisions.

We look forward to reading your work!