As always, The Northville Review seeks magic in the ordinary. Bring it on, mofos!

ALL CATEGORIES
– Send your work (and a bio, if you prefer to do that earlier rather than later) to northvillereview(at)gmail(dot)com.
– Text submissions should be included in the body of your email, but we will accept attachments in Rich Text Format. Or, even better, Plain Text Format.
– If you would prefer to receive a form response, please let us know. (Please also be aware that we can’t always provide a personal response.)
– Simultaneous submissions are encouraged. Let us know as soon as possible if your work is accepted elsewhere.
– If your work is accepted, The Northville Review obtains one-time publication rights. We archive accepted work unless asked to do otherwise. If we seek print anthology rights later, you’ll receive a separate request.
– We are a non-paying market, but will snail mail contributors something of interest upon request. And we’ll buy you a drink if we meet in person.
– If your work has previously appeared in The Northville Review, with the exception of Inside Jokes (see below), please wait until the calendar quarter after it appears to submit again.

FICTION
The Northville Review seeks fiction with suburban and/or pop culture aesthetics. We’ve got literary tendencies, but we know better than to write off other genres. Feel free to look through our previous issues to get a sense of what we might be interested in. However, you should know that these days we itch for humor, irreverence, and experimentation.

You may submit up to 2,000 words at a time. Five flash fictions of exactly 400 words each? No problem. Please query anything with a word count over 2,000 words. By “query,” we mean “tell us what it’s about, and why it belongs in The Northville Review.”

A few words on Fictionaut.com: For our purposes, The Northville Review does not consider work that has appeared on Fictionaut to be previously published. We also do not consider work sent to The Northville Review group on Fictionaut for publication. In case there’s any ambiguity about this, we delete work sent to that group which has not previously been published here. Please use the guidelines on this page for submitting your work.

POETRY
During this reading period, The Northville Review seeks ONLY poetry with contemporary pop culture elements. No exceptions. Please note that poems featuring video games or guilty pleasure pop culture elements will receive special consideration. Submit no more than three poems at a time, and wait five business days to submit again after receiving a response.

We always STRONGLY advise poets to read our current issue and archives to get a sense of what we’re about. Our notorious pickiness usually has less to do with perceived merit than it does with style and subject matter.

NON FICTION
We’ve made it clear that we like personal essays. We also like reviews, letters, interviews, lists, and other ephemera. We’d REALLY like some opportunities to prove it.

Please query anything with a word count over 2,000 words. By “query,” we mean “tell us what it’s about, and why it belongs in The Northville Review.”

INSIDE JOKES, EXPLAINED
We continually seek people for a regular feature titled “Inside Jokes, Explained.” It is what it says on the box. If you are interested in writing for this feature or being interviewed for it, please contact us at northvillereview(at)gmail(dot)com. Use the subject header INSIDE JOKES. Submissions for this department can be in any format that can be rendered digitally. You’ll find previous Inside Jokes at the top of our Archives page, but we are open to all interpretations of the concept.

ART/AUDIO/OTHER MULTIMEDIA
Please query before submitting anything that would fall in this category, with the exception of JPG and GIF files. We will probably be able to accommodate nearly anything you send our way, but we want to make sure that we can before you go through the hassle of sending it to us.

REPRINTS, ALL CATEGORIES
The Northville Review considers reprints under the following circumstances:
– The print edition in which the work appears must be more than one year old.
– The original version is NOT available online in its entirety.
– The author has disclosed that she or he holds the rights, and where the submission was published.

last revised: 2/2/10