Paying market, The Chattahoochee Review, pays $50 per poem/ $25 per page for prose

The Chattahoochee Review is seeking poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for a special issue on Southern Literature to be published in late 2011. We are particularly interested in writing that:



1. Challenges the traditional definition of "Southern"

2. Addresses the concerns of ethnicity in the South

3. Uses humor with originality and intelligence

4. Blends the gothic with other literary modes

5. Defies geography and the use of the vernacular as the only conditions of Southern identity



Please send work to the appropriate editor with Southern Literature issue marked clearly on the outside envelope.



GENERAL GUIDELINES



Since we buy first North American rights, submissions should be works previously unpublished in North America, typed on one side of each page with the author’s name and contact information (including email address) clearly identified. Please single-space between sentences. Include a SASE for a response; not doing so will result in the manuscript being rejected without notification. We appreciate a short cover letter, dated, with a concise bio that could be used should we publish the work. Please inform us of a simultaneous submission and email us immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere. Do not email submissions.



Familiarity with our journal is the best way to know whether or not work is right for us, so we strongly encourage buying a sample copy or subscribing. Our newly-streamlined response time averages two to three months, longer only in special circumstances.



Send only your very best work with our assurance it will be given every consideration.



FICTION



TCR publishes high quality literary fiction characterized by interest in language, development of distinctive settings, compelling conflict, and complex, unique characters. Please read a sample copy. Fiction should be double-spaced with numbered pages and one-inch margins. Submit only one story or up to three short-shorts (500-1,000 words each) per envelope. We consider longer stories of up to 6,000 words and novellas.



POETRY



TCR publishes excellent poetry of all types, including informal personal narratives, prose poems, and formal poems. We consider English translations of poetry from other languages, in which case a brief biography of the poet and translator should be included. Poetry should be single-spaced and include three to five poems per submission.



NONFICTION



TCR publishes distinctive topical essays and personal creative nonfiction of any kind; this includes pieces that might fit into the memoir, travel, and historical nonfiction categories. We are not an academic journal and publish for a general readership. Above all, we are interested in publishing nonfiction that surprises and intrigues us.



INTERVIEWS



TCR publishes interviews with writers of all kinds: literary, academic, journalistic, and popular. Recent interviews have featured Tony Grooms, Wells Tower, Larry Brown, Claude Wilkinson, Ferreira Gullar, and Kunal Basu. Please query us (by snail mail) with a proposal for a particular interview.



REVIEWS AND REVIEW ESSAYS



TCR publishes reviews of current fiction, poetry, and nonfiction books, especially those from writers with an innovative approach to subject matter. Several related works may be reviewed at more length in a review essay that engages critical issues not appropriate to a single review. We are always in search of new reviewers. Please query us (by snail mail) about the possibility of a particular review or review essay, specifying your credentials for the review.



VISUAL ART



TCR accepts visual art submissions, photography included, by invitation only.



Please send all submissions to the appropriate editor at the following address:



The Chattahoochee Review

Georgia Perimeter College

555 North Indian Creek Drive

Clarkston, GA 30021

PAYMENT



We typically pay $50/poem and $25/page for prose. Payment for reviews, interviews, plays, and art is determined on an individual basis. All contributors receive two copies.



Contact Information:



For submissions: The Chattahoochee Review, Georgia Perimeter College, 555 North Indian Creek Drive, Clarkston, GA 30021



Website: http://www.gpc.edu/~gpccr/index.htm