Submission guidelines:
We have two submission periods:
July 1 through September 1: CONTEST SUBMISSIONS ( $20 contest fee) for the Narrative Poetry Contest
January 1 through March 1: OPEN SUBMISSIONS (no fee)
FIRST PLEASE READ THE GUIDELINES BELOW.
THEN TO SUBMIT GO TO: http://naugatuckriverreviewsubmissions.com. If you want to check on a previous submission, go to the Submission Manager program and sign in by clicking HERE.
We accept ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS ONLY through our online submission manager. Emailed submissions and mailed submissions will not be considered.
During the submission period ONLY please submit no more than 3 unpublished NARRATIVE poems of no more than 50 lines each through the online submission manager. Please remove your name from your file, as the poetry is read blind by our editorial staff. Questions ONLY: Feel free to email us at naugatuckriver@aol.com. .
Accepted contributors will be rewarded with a copy of the journal. We are not in a position to pay you otherwise, but hope the journal is worth much more than the cost of its paper.
Multiple submissions are discouraged, but simultaneous submissions are fine, as long as you inform us right away if your poem is accepted elsewhere. We claim first North American publication rights, so rights revert to the author after the initial publication period, just please give us credit. We prefer work that has not been previously published.
WHAT IS NARRATIVE POETRY?
We get this question quite often. What NRR is looking for are poems that tell a story, or have a strong sense of story. They can be stories of a moment or an experience, and can be personal or historical. A good narrative poem that would work for our journal has a compressed narrative, and we prefer poems that take up two pages or less of the journal (50 lines max). We are looking above all for poems that are well-crafted, have an excellent lyric quality and contain a strong emotional core. Any style of poem is considered, including prose poems. Poems with very long lines don’t fit well in the format. Hope this helps
