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Vestal Review [1]

Basic Information
State: 
New Jersey
Website: 
https://vestalreview.net [2]
Country: 
United States
Submission Guidelines: 
https://vestalreview.net/guidelines [3]
Contact Information
David
Galef
Editor
Contact E-mail: 
submissions@vestalreview.net [4]
Details
Formats: 
Online
Payment: 
Cash
Genres Published: 
Fiction
Charges Reading Fee: 
Yes
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
Yes
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
Yes
Reading Periods: 
Feb 1 to May 31
Aug 1 to Nov 30
Response Time: 
Less than 3 months
Free online

Vestal Review is the longest-running flash fiction magazine on the planet, published continuously since March 2000. It’s an online magazine coming out twice a year, and it’s eclectic, so a lot of different approaches work, provided they don’t pass the limit of 500 words. VR tends more toward narrative than some other magazines, but they’re also quite taken by arresting sentences, exciting setups, and characters worth watching.

First and foremost, we like to hear a distinctive voice; second, saying something we haven’t heard before. Third, we’d like the story to move along and not be some static set of observations or a prose poem. What we see too much of: tired or inexact language, well-worn or contrived plots, and nonexistent endings.

Representative Authors: 
<p>Steve Almond, Katharine Weber, Mike Resnick, Aimee Bender, Sam Lipsyte, Kirk Nesset, Judith Cofer, Bruce Boston, Robert Boswell, Bruce Holland Rogers, Michelle Richmond, Liz Rosenberg, Stuart Dybek, Robert Olen Butler, Pamela Painter</p>
Issues per Year: 
2
Year Founded: 
2000
Percentage of Unsolicited Submissions Published: 
1% to 5%
Issue Price: 
Free
Number of Debut Authors per Issue: 
1-2
Less than 1,000
Subgenres: 
Flash Fiction [5]

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

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/literary_magazines/vestal_review [2] https://vestalreview.net [3] https://vestalreview.net/guidelines [4] mailto:submissions@vestalreview.net [5] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/flash_fiction