P.O. Box 148, Yellow Springs, OH 45387 (937)769-1365

Guidelines for Prospective Contributors

The best answer we can give on inquiries relating to what kind of material the ANTIOCH REVIEW uses is, "read the magazine." Look through a few representative issues for an idea of subjects, treatment, lengths of articles, and stories we have used; it will be far more rewarding than any theories we might try to formulate.

Unfortunately, we cannot honor requests for free sample copies. The REVIEW is expensive to produce and operates on a precarious financial margin. If copies are not available at your local bookstore, newsstand or library, we will be happy to send you a back issue for $7.00, which includes postage and handling.

Please note that we do not read simultaneous submissions, nor do we consider electronic submissions. Review the section below on style, lengths, and payment for more information about submissions.

ARTICLES

Our audience is made up of educated citizens, often professional people, who are interested in matters beyond their fields of special activity. With few exceptions, our subjects cover most of the range of social science and humanities. Our approach tries to steer a middle course between scholars speaking exclusively to other scholars in their field, and workaday journalists appealing to a broad popular audience; both these approaches have their own journals and audiences. We try for the interpretive essay on a topic of current importance, drawing on scholarly materials for its substance and appealing to the intellectual and social concerns of our readers. We are also interested in reviving the moribund art of literary journalism.

We DO NOT accept essay submissions between June 1 and September 1. Submissions received during this period will be returned unread (if SASE enclosed) or discarded.

FICTION

We seldom publish more than three short stories in each issue. Although the new writer as well as the previously published author is welcome, it is the story that counts, a story worthy of the serious attention of the intelligent reader, a story that is compelling, written with distinction. Only rarely do we publish translations of well known or new foreign writers; a chapter of a novel is welcome only if it can be read complete in itself as a short story.

We DO NOT accept fiction submissions between June 1 and September 1. Submissions received during this period will be returned unread (if SASE enclosed) or discarded.

POETRY

Like fiction, we get far more poetry than we can possibly accept, and the competition is keen. Here, where form and content are so inseparable and reaction is so personal, it is difficult to state requirements or limitations. Studying recent issues of the REVIEW should be helpful. No "light" or inspirational verse. Any poetry received without a self addressed stamped envelope will be discarded if rejected and no notice will be sent. No need to enclose a post card for the purpose of acknowledging receipt of a submission. Do not mix poetry and prose in the same envelope. Please submit three to six poems at one time.

We DO NOT accept poetry submissions between May 1 and September 1. Submissions received during this period will be returned unread (if SASE enclosed) or discarded.

REVIEWS

We do not publish unsolicited book reviews and very seldom do we publish essays on literary problems or the canons of significant contemporary writers. The editors and their associates regularly prepare a section of short book evaluations, selectively treating recent publications.

STYLE, LENGTH, PAYMENT, ETC.

Our literary standards are as high as we can enforce them; we do not have the staff to engage in major editorial rewriting, except on rare occasions when the content justifies the effort.

Actually, we have no rigid expectations of length, preferring the content and treatment to determine size. Rarely, however, do we use articles or stories over 5,000 words—and 8,000 at the outside limit.

In order to be returned to you, all manuscripts must be accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE). We cannot be responsible for the return of manuscripts for which the postage has not been provided. If you want the manuscript discarded, say so and enclose a stamped envelope which we can use to reply if we do not accept your submission.

Manuscripts should be typed, double-spaced on one side of white, 8.5 x 11 paper. Please spare the editors the task of reading carbons or dirty copies or pages with excessive inter-linear corrections and revisions. We also prefer manuscripts to be mailed flat, fastened by paper clip only, and one per envelope. (This does not apply for poetry.) Do not mix prose and poetry in the same envelope, please.

We try to report on manuscripts as quickly as possible, but because material that interests us is occasionally read by several members of our staff, the process can sometimes take up to 4 to 6 months. We appreciate your patience.

Payment is upon publication at the rate of $15.00 per printed page (about 425 words) plus 2 copies of the issue. Authors may buy additional copies at an authors' discount of 40% off the cover price.

All material sent to the ANTIOCH REVIEW is read and considered, although we cannot comment on each rejection. As noted above, we do not read simultaneous submissions.