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Editor: Adam McGee, managing editor
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Boston Review is a national magazine of ideas and culture. We mainly publish long-form essays and book reviews ranging from 2,000 to 5,000 words in length. We are independent and nonprofit and have a small editorial staff. We try to review submissions within two weeks of the submission date, but delays can occasionally lead to much longer response times.
1. You may submit nonfiction pitches and drafts up to 5,000 words, subject to these limitations:
We DO NOT ACCEPT memoirs or personal essays. These submissions will be rejected without being read.
We DO NOT ACCEPT op-eds of fewer than 1,500 words. These submissions will be rejected without being read.
2. Please include your email address in all documents you submit. Your submission may be rejected out of hand if your submission letter and attached document do not contain an email address.
3. If you have published work elsewhere, please include links to clips of your other writing.
4. If you are submitting a pitch instead of a draft, please describe in a substantive paragraph what argument you intend to make as well as what structure, length, and frame you expect the essay to take. Pitches shorter than a couple of sentences are always rejected out of hand.
5. Submissions tend to perform better when they show some familiarity with work Boston Review has published.
Market Type: Magazine
Accepts: Contemporary, Ethnic, Experimental, Prose
Web Address: www.bostonreview.net
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Updated August 18, 2020
