The Stockholm Review of Literature. Deadline: Jan 4th.

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SUBMISSIONS

N.B. Submissions received between November 12th 2014 – January 4th 2015 will be considered for publication in The Stockholm Review of Literature’s 6th edition.

Please direct all queries and submissions tostockholmlitreview@gmail.com

Please note that we only accept unsolicited submissions (here’s looking at you, Jonathan Franzen. Stop having your agent do your dirty work for you).

Short Fiction (The Lagerlöf Section)

Things we like: No more than 8,000 words. J.D. Salinger and David Foster Wallace. Things that make us go: This stuff is so good, it’d actually be impossible to find a publisher who’d take it. 
Things we don’t like: Crime.

Poetry (The Södergran Section)

Things we like: No more than 10. Honesty and clarity. Frank O’Hara and Leonard Cohen and 7th century Irish verse. Karin Boye.
Things we don’t like: Hart Crane. Anything but Hart Crane.

Essays (The Swedenborg Section)

Things we like: Feminism. [At the moment we’re particularly open to feminist non-fiction. So much so that we’re aiming to launch a feminist non-fiction putsch.] Topical pop referential trash. Psychoanalysis. Religion. Radical and very upsetting leftist or neo-conservative political pieces. Book reviews. No more than 2,000 words.
Things we don’t like: Politics. Robert Nozick.

Visual Art (The Zorn Section)

Things we like: Urban photography. Cities and the people who live in them. We give preference to: Stockholm, London, Paris.
Things we don’t like: Performance photography. Marina Abramovic.

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N.B. Please note that the creators of the SRL are doing this because they have a sincere interest in promoting the work of excellent artists and writers. Please note, also, that the creators of the SRL are (and please note, again, that this is meant in the most relative of senses) fairly broke.* 

All rights remain with the author/artist. We simply asks that if you submit your work elsewhere (after it’s appeared here), then you refer to the SRL as your first publisher.

*Broke, adjective: and until we either start making a lot more money, or receive some donations (though we won’t accept any), we won’t be able to financially compensate our contributors.