NDR publishes a wide range of fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, book reviews, and interviews. Please check out our genre editor statements for a better idea of what kind of work our editors are looking for.
Please direct all submissions to our Submittable account. We welcome simultaneous submissions with prompt notification if your work is accepted elsewhere, as well as submissions in multiple genres. Please provide contact information and a brief biography for all submissions. Current LSU students and faculty are not eligible for publication.
As a journal we are committed to publishing underrepresented voices, and aim to foster diversity in our issues. Although we ask for a small fee for our general submissions, this fee helps us sustain and extend this practice into our community by hosting and supporting readings, contests, and other literary events.
All published work will be eligible for our Matt Clark Editors’ Choice Prizes in Prose and Poetry. The winners of the prize (one prose writer and one poet, selected from the fall and spring issues of the current academic year) will be chosen by the NDR staff and receive $250.
From drawing and painting to photography to sculpture, we welcome works that strive to push against traditional concepts and forms; send us your wildest and most challenging pieces. Please see our past photography contest winners and the cover art featured in our back issues for a sense of our evolving aesthetic. Please consider our online format, and the possibilities of art on the Internet, when submitting your work. We want art that works with or around the limits that our online platform offers.
For image submissions, please attach med-res JPGS (no larger than 4MB). For video/new media submissions, links are acceptable.
We welcome works that incorporate multiple genres and/or mediums... along with ones that hold out against categorization altogether. Possible forms could include: collages, interactive writing, micro-fiction and nonfiction, sound-texts, video-texts, visual and/or concrete poems, or anything else that challenges the boundaries of medium and genre or might not otherwise be able to be published in a print magazine.
If you are sending new media work, please bear in mind that we will link it from our website, which is somewhat limited in its ability to host large media files and microsites. This may require hosting your work on a third-party site.
Please submit no more than 5 pieces.
Simultaneous Submissions: All good! BUT if your piece is accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible.
We welcome experimental essays that explore personal experiences, that engage the reader on both an affective and intellectual level. We enjoy work that celebrates the genre’s complexity by pairing compelling content with innovative structure. Questions are as valuable as answers—let us be confused, curious, and questioning ALL the things alongside you.
While we do occasionally publish longer essays, we prefer submissions of around 3,000 words or less.
Simultaneous Submissions: All good! BUT if your piece is accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible.
We welcome works that incorporate multiple genres and/or mediums... along with ones that hold out against categorization altogether. Possible forms could include: collages, interactive writing, micro-fiction and nonfiction, sound-texts, video-texts, visual and/or concrete poems, or anything else that challenges the boundaries of medium and genre or might not otherwise be able to be published in a print magazine.
If you are sending new media work, please bear in mind that we will link it from our website, which is somewhat limited in its ability to host large media files and microsites. This may require hosting your work on a third-party site.
Please submit no more than 5 pieces.
Simultaneous Submissions: All good! BUT if your piece is accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible.
We welcome experimental essays that explore personal experiences, that engage the reader on both an affective and intellectual level. We enjoy work that celebrates the genre’s complexity by pairing compelling content with innovative structure. Questions are as valuable as answers—let us be confused, curious, and questioning everything alongside you.
While we do occasionally publish longer essays, we prefer submissions of around 3,000 words or less.
Simultaneous Submissions: All good! BUT if your piece is accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible.
New Delta Review is thrilled to announce our 14th annual Chapbook Competition. For this contest, we're looking for manuscripts of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or hybrid work. We’re interested in works that have some cohesion to them. We like things that are compelling and hold our attention. In the past, we've tended towards accepting things that challenge our ideas of tradition, but any aesthetic choices are fair game and will be considered.
Entry Fee: $10
Eligibility:
- Manuscripts should be 20-35 pages in length and should include a title page with contact information. The title page and table of contents will not be included in the page count.
- All submissions must be made as .pdf, .doc., or .docx, through Submittable.
- We are only accepting works written primarily in English. We are not accepting translations.
- While individual pieces within the manuscript may be published elsewhere, the manuscript must be unpublished as a whole. If individual pieces have been published, writers can include an acknowledgments page at the end of the manuscript, which will not count toward the 20-35 page limit.
- Multiple submissions are allowed but require separate entry fees. Simultaneous submissions are welcome on the condition that writers notify New Delta Review of another acceptance as soon as possible.
- Current students and faculty of LSU are ineligible.
Grand Prize:
- Publication of chapbook, 25 author copies, and a feature in an upcoming issue of New Delta Review
- $350
Final Judge: Dorothea Lasky
About Dorothea: Dorothea Lasky is the author of eight books of poetry and prose, includingThe Shining and the forthcoming, MEMORY.