Bennington Review Submissions/ How to Submit (Pay : $395+ )

Bennington Review is currently accepting submissions in different kinds of writing

The Bennington review team aims to stake out a distinctive space for innovative, intelligent, and moving fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, film writing, and cross-genre work. In the spirit of poet Dean Young’s dictum that poets should be “making birds, not birdcages,” they are particularly taken with writing that is simultaneously graceful and reckless.

Eligibility for Bennington Review Submissions

• They only accept unsolicited submissions through Bennington Submittable.
• There is, at present, no reading fee. Application is free.
• Anyone can apply
• The Bennington review team are unable to respond to paper submissions or unsolicited e-mail submissions, or to comment on individual pieces.
• They do not accept unsolicited submissions from current or recent students, faculty, or staff of Bennington College. Undergraduate and graduate alumni, past employees of Bennington, are to wait two years before submitting work to the magazine.
• Submissions response times vary, though they aim to respond to most submissions within five to eight months.

 

Submission Guidelines

• Prose submissions must be double-spaced and paginated.
• Please include a cover letter with your submission. They welcome simultaneous submissions as long as you notify them immediately when work has been accepted elsewhere.
• BR welcomes submissions from established and emerging writers alike.
• Writers who submit to the journal should possess familiarity with contemporary literature in the genre of their work.
• For poetry, please send no fewer than three and no more than five poems per submission. For fiction and creative nonfiction, please send no more than thirty pages per submission; any excerpts from a longer project must work as self-contained essays or stories.
• For film writing (and/or television writing), BR is not looking for evaluative “reviews”; rather, please send essays that engage with cinema in a unique and/or personal way.
• They want writers who are aware of the greater cultural, aesthetic, and social significance of their subject, be it domestic, international, avant-garde, classic, or contemporary cinema.
• They will also consider pieces on television, video art, viral videos, Vines, o
• r any of the other alternative forms that moving images might take. Our preferred length for film writing is ten to twenty pages.

 

Pay

They will pay contributors $120 for prose of six typeset pages and under, $250 for prose of over six typeset pages, and $25 per poem, in addition to two copies of the issue in which the piece is published and a copy of the subsequent issue.

Deadline

This submission period is from November 15, 2023, through March 8, 2024.

Goodluck!