Exposition Review is happy to announce the theme for our tenth annual issue: “Spring.”
Submissions will be open September 15–December 15*, 2024. We accept work in all forms: fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage & screen, experimental narratives, visual art, film, and comics.
*Submissions have been extended through December 31, 2024, for Nonfiction, Experimental, Visual Art, Comics, and Film.
Read more about the theme and how to submit:
When one reaches a milestone anniversary—ten years, for example—it’s a moment of both reflection and anticipation, a period of celebrating the past and looking forward to the future, an occasion to marvel at the cyclical nature of time and revel in a new beginning.
Exposition Review is at just such a juncture as we open submissions for Vol. X—proud of all that we have accomplished in our pages and our community in Vols. I through IX, and excited for the growth that lies ahead.
And we’re looking to ride that momentum with “Spring”—the sense of renewal and rejuvenation that comes with the season. Springs are also life-giving sources—of water or, say, creativity. They’re elastic and resilient, snapping back into place with reverberating force. To spring is to bounce forward (or backward), to release from captivity, or to pay for drinks—always with a sense of energy in the transition from one state to another.
So for Vol. X—a milestone issue for Expo—bring us your spring breaks, your spring fevers, your spring rolls. Tell us tales that spring a surprise or spring a leak or spring a trap. We’re looking for stories that well from the imagination, language that leaps off the page, writing that’s liberated from the constraints of genre and crackles with the energy of a spring storm.
Spring it on.
For all submissions received by October 31, 2024, we guarantee personalized feedback. All accepted work will receive $50.00 USD as payment. Free submission days will be on December 3 (Giving Tuesday) and December 10 (Human Rights Day).
We look forward to reading your work!
Meet the Editorial Team
Editors-in-Chief: Annlee Ellingson & Laura Rensing
Fiction Co-Editors: Dave Gregory & Mellinda Hensley
Associate Fiction Editor: Heather Vaughan
Flash Fiction Editor: Jessica June Rowe
Nonfiction Editor: Ramona Pilar
Associate Nonfiction Editor: Francesca Spiegel
Poetry Editor: Anya Maria Johnson
Associate Poetry Editor: Kiana Shaley
Stage & Screen, Comics and Film Editor: Lauren Gorski
Experimental Editor: Rebecca Luxton
Visual Art Editor: Brianna J.L. Smyk
Remember to check out our submission page for specific guidelines. Want an even better idea of what to submit to us? Read our previous issues.
We accept all submissions via Submittable:
