
We make every effort to respond within six months, but response time will vary according to the number of submissions.For poetry submissions, please use your Submittable account to add a note to your submission listing the titles of works no longer available for consideration. For prose submissions, please use your Submittable account to withdraw your submission. If work you have submitted to us is accepted elsewhere, please notify us immediately.Simultaneous submissions are permitted.Multiple submissions in the same genre will be rejected unread. Submissions are limited to one prose piece and four poems per reading period.Or you can purchase a recent issue at your local newsstand or bookstore, or directly from us. A portion of every issue is freely available on our website. Please read past issues of VQR before submitting your work so you have a clear sense of our editorial focus.We do not accept submissions via e-mail or post. We only accept submissions online via Submittable.Please do not submit previously published material, including work published in anthologies, chapbooks, or online. In general, we are looking for nonfiction that looks out on the world, rather than within the self. We publish few author interviews or memoirs. We publish literary, art, and cultural criticism reportage historical and political analysis and creative nonfiction. We are generally not interested in genre fiction (such as romance, science fiction, or fantasy). Short Fiction: Length is 3,500–8,000 words.A look at one of our latest issues will show you the diversity of voices we publish. While we have a long history of publishing accomplished and award-winning authors, we also seek and support emerging writers. VQR strives to publish the best writing we can find.
