SUBMISSIONS FOR OUR 8TH ANNUAL NARRATIVE POETRY CONTEST
are NOW CLOSED. Thank you for submitting!

Naugatuck River Review’s Eighth Annual NARRATIVE POETRY CONTEST is being judged by Tara Betts.
Finalists, Semi-Finalists and Winners will be notified and posted here by the end of November 2016. Open submissions for our non-contest issue will open January 1, 2017.

First prize is $1000 and publication in NRR
Second prize $250 and publication in NRR
Third prize of  $100 and publication in NRR

Judge for this year’s Contest is Tara Betts:

Tara Betts is the author of Break the Habit and Arc & Hue. Her chapbooks include Never Been Lois Lane, 7 x 7: kwansabas, and THE GREATEST!: An Homage to Muhammad Ali. Her writing has appeared in POETRY, Obsidian, Callaloo, and several anthologies. She is a co-editor for the anthology The Beiging of America: Personal Narratives About Mixed Race in the 21st Century. Betts earned her MFA at New England College and her Ph.D. in English at Binghamton University. She teaches at University of Illinois-Chicago.

Naugatuck River Review is going online for one issue.

We have decided to change the format of the Summer/Fall issue of Naugatuck River Review and put the journal online. The contest issue (Winter/Spring) will still be a print issue, but the Summer/Fall issue will from now on be an online journal.

If you have recently submitted to the Summer/Fall issue through our open submissions and prefer your work to not be published online, please go ahead and withdraw your submission before we start reading in March. Letters are going out to all contributors in the next day or two.

OPEN SUBMISSIONS JANUARY 1 – March 1, 2015 (no fee)

Submission guidelines:

FIRST PLEASE READ THE GUIDELINES BELOW.

We accept ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS ONLY through our online submission manager. Emailed submissions and mailed submissions will not be considered. Go to http://naugatuckriverreviewsubmissions.com to submit.

During the submission period ONLY please submit no more than 3 unpublished NARRATIVE poems of no more than 50 lines in one MSWord file each through the online submission manager.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. .

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.