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Red River Review [1]

Basic Information
State: 
Colorado
Website: 
https://redriverreview.org [2]
Country: 
United States
Submission Guidelines: 
https://redriverreview.org/submissions [3]
Address: 
P.O. Box 197
City: 
Gardner
Zip / Postal Code: 
81040
Contact Information
Heather
Robinson Hernandez
Editor in Chief
Contact E-mail: 
redriverreview2025@gmail.com [4]
Details
Formats: 
Online
Digital
Audio
Payment: 
No payment
Genres Published: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Charges Reading Fee: 
Yes
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
No
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
Yes
Reading Periods: 
Jul 1 to Aug 31
Oct 1 to Dec 31
Jan 1 to Mar 31
Apr 1 to Jun 30
Response Time: 
Less than 3 months
Free

Red River Review is a digital literary journal founded in 1999 and relaunched in 2025. Rooted in poetry, it also now publishes short stories, creative essays, and visual art. The journal seeks thoughtful, resonant work and is committed to creative exchange, community engagement, and supporting emerging and established voices.

We’re drawn to work that lingers—poems, stories, essays, and art that are emotionally resonant and thoughtfully crafted, expanding the possibilities of language, form, and how we see the world. We welcome work that lives where place, memory (personal and collective), identity, and lived experience converge. Visual and digital submissions should evoke story, atmosphere, mood, or metaphor in ways that engage the senses.

Representative Authors: 
Naomi Shihab Nye, Roger Jones, Jerry Bradley, Michelle Hartman, Timothy Pilgrim, Zola Gonzalez-Macarambon, ​Larry D. Thomas, Benjamin Myers, Mary McLaughlin Slechta, Loretta Diane Walker, Catherine Chandler, David Adès, Adele Kenny, Tobi Cogswell
Issues per Year: 
4
Year Founded: 
1999
Distributors: 
Online hosting and distribution
Percentage of Unsolicited Submissions Published: 
6% to 10%
Issue Price: 
Free
Number of Debut Authors per Issue: 
15-30
2,500 to 5,000
Subgenres: 
Creative Nonfiction [5]
Cross-genre [6]
Fiction [7]
Flash Fiction [8]
Graphic/Illustrated [9]
Literary Fiction [10]
Lyric Essay [11]
Poetry [12]
Prose Poetry [13]
Visual Poetry [14]

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/literary_magazines/red_river_review

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/literary_magazines/red_river_review [2] https://redriverreview.org [3] https://redriverreview.org/submissions [4] mailto:redriverreview2025@gmail.com [5] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/17192 [6] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/crossgenre [7] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/fiction [8] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/flash_fiction [9] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/graphic-illustrated [10] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/literary_fiction [11] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/17191 [12] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/poetry [13] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/prose_poetry [14] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/visual-poetry