Sacramento Literary Review accepts unsolicited submissions of previously uncurated fiction, poetry, and art year round. Please read the detailed instructions for your genre below before submitting.

We try our best to respond to all submissions within three months. Submissions accompanied by a donation of $5 or more will receive an expedited response within seven days. Submissions accompanied by a donation of $10 or more will receive an expedited response within two days. Please use the donation button below and included “Expedited Response [x] Days” in your submission subject line.

Sacramento Literary Review acquires first serial rights to accepted work. Copyright reverts back to the author upon publication. As a free publication that also charges no fees for submissions, we are unfortunately unable to provide payment to our authors.

After you submit, please consider subscribing to our print magazine offered on a pay what you can basis or making a donation so that we can continue to offer free submissions to those for whom fees may present a financial hardship.

We look forward to reading your work.

We accept fiction up to 6,500 words in length. Please submit only one story at a time. We primarily publish literary fiction but welcome works that challenge traditional notions of what that means. Translations are welcome, but translators are expected to secure translation rights before submitting. Please email all manuscripts to [email protected] and include “Fiction” in the subject line.

Please submit no more than five poems or ten pages of poetry in a single Word or PDF document. Translations are welcome, but translators are expected to secure translation rights before submitting. Please email all manuscripts to [email protected] and include “Poetry” in the subject line.

If you’re a visual artist or photographer and would like to submit work for an upcoming issue, please email it to [email protected] with “Visual Art” as the subject line. If your files are too large to be sent as an attachment, a link to a Google Drive folder shared to the above address is also acceptable. You may include up to five images per submission. Please do not submit more once per issue.