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.
New Delta Review welcomes original work by the artist in any medium: Drawing, painting, photography, and photos of installations or sculptures. We're most excited by works that call traditional forms and concepts into question—send us your wildest and most challenging pieces.
Guidelines
- Send 2-5 pieces per submission.
- Use the .jpg format with a maximum file size of 4 MB.
We welcome fiction of all forms, from short stories and flash fiction to nonlinear anomalies. While we tend toward the “weird,” our aesthetic is always in flux. Plot or no plot, satire or soul-crushing romance, all we ask is that you keep us turning the page. The best way to understand our vibe is to read one of our issues.
Please submit one short story—we rarely publish pieces over 4,000 words. If you're writing flash fiction, send up to three stories of no more than 1,500 words each.
Simultaneous Submissions: All good! BUT if your piece is accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible.
New Delta Review 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 publishable in a print magazine.
If you are sending new media work, please bear in mind that we may need to link it from our website depending on its format. This may require hosting your work on a third-party site.
Guidlines
- Submit up to 5 pieces.
- Simultaneous submissions are all good, but if your piece is accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible.
We welcome essays with compelling emotional resonance and distinctive, effective command of voice. Experiments in form and structure that feel urgent, necessary and inextricable to the content make our brains tingle, and we get excited over excellently executed traditional narrative. Bring us your lyricism, your breaks in form, your reclaiming histories, your deepest inquiries — all topics fair game.
Write from personal experience or not, but please note we do not accept essays that amount to voyeurism of/parachuting into marginalized cultures by authors from Western backgrounds, or essays rooted in the dehumanization of marginalized peoples. We do accept essays that engage with current events, so long as they are relatively evergreen, given that our publication process lasts roughly three months.
For longform submissions, we prefer essays around 3,000 words or less, though we may occasionally publish a longer piece. For flash submissions, send up to three essays of no more than 1,000 words each.
Simultaneous Submissions: All good! BUT if your piece is accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible.
We welcome poems that challenge traditional notions of lyricism... or avoid the lyric altogether. Stricter forms are fine, but we tend to prefer them corrupted. Embrace the bizarre, the political, the radical, but do so with purpose. Please send no more than five poems.
Simultaneous Submissions: All good! BUT if your piece is accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible.
We welcome fiction of all forms, from short stories and flash fiction to nonlinear anomalies. While we tend toward the “weird,” our aesthetic is always in flux. Plot or no plot, satire or soul-crushing romance, all we ask is that you keep us turning the page. The best way to understand our vibe is to read one of our issues.
Please submit one short story—we rarely publish pieces over 4,000 words. If you're writing flash fiction, send up to three stories of no more than 1,500 words each.
Simultaneous Submissions: All good! BUT if your piece is accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible.
*Fee-Free BIPOC fiction submissions are capped at 50.
New Delta Review 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 publishable in a print magazine.
If you are sending new media work, please bear in mind that we may need to link it from our website depending on its format. This may require hosting your work on a third-party site.
Guidlines
- Submit up to 5 pieces.
- Simultaneous submissions are all good, but if your piece is accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible.
We welcome essays with compelling emotional resonance and distinctive, effective command of voice. Experiments in form and structure that feel urgent, necessary and inextricable to the content make our brains tingle, and we get excited over excellently executed traditional narrative. Bring us your lyricism, your breaks in form, your reclaiming histories, your deepest inquiries — all topics fair game.
Write from personal experience or not, but please note we do not accept essays that amount to voyeurism of/parachuting into marginalized cultures by authors from Western backgrounds, or essays rooted in the dehumanization of marginalized peoples. We do accept essays that engage with current events, so long as they are relatively evergreen, given that our publication process lasts roughly three months.
For longform submissions, we prefer essays around 3,000 words or less, though we may occasionally publish a longer piece. For flash submissions, send up to three essays of no more than 1,000 words each.
Simultaneous Submissions: All good! BUT if your piece is accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible.
We welcome poems that challenge traditional notions of lyricism... or avoid the lyric altogether. Stricter forms are fine, but we tend to prefer them corrupted. Embrace the bizarre, the political, the radical, but do so with purpose. Please send no more than five poems.
Simultaneous Submissions: All good! BUT if your piece is accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible.
*Fee-free BIPOC poetry submissions are capped at 50.