Prose writers are invited to submit literary fiction/nonfiction of up to eight thousand words. Poets may submit up to five poems. Please wait for a response before submitting more work.

This literary journal is primarily an online publication. Print issues are generated periodically, although we cannot guarantee contributions will eventually make it to print.

To get more of an idea of what we are looking for, please read the journal. Prose writers can consult our list of Recommended Reading or may be interested in additional advice (contains no mandatory requirements). To learn more about the history, aesthetic, and underpinning of the journal, you may be interested in an interview with the editor, held at Lit Mag News in March, 2024.

Email submissions to editor@summersetreview.org as an attachment in MS Word, or as plain text. Please do not send in PDF format. For poetry, please include all poems in the same document. If you are submitting both poetry and prose, please send in separate emails.

Excerpts will be considered if you believe the work stands alone. Reprints will not be considered unless the work will be included in an upcoming collection and has not yet appeared elsewhere. Simultaneous submissions are encouraged.

We read year-round and have not gone on hiatus since opening our doors in 2002.

If you need to withdraw material submitted, it would be very helpful if you include the date of the original submission when you contact us.

We do not take longer than four months to respond to submissions. If you have not received a response to your submission within four months, we ask that you check your email spam folder first, and if you see no sign of a response, please hassle us. We find that outgoing email is sometimes blocked at the recipient or sent to spam, particularly with Outlook, Hotmail, AOL, and Comcast email addresses.

Contributors will see drafts of accepted pieces for review prior to release. We obtain no rights to literary work, although we request credit be given to The Summerset Review in the event the work is reprinted and was first published here.

We nominate stories annually for various anthologies and awards, including Pushcart Prize, the Best American series, PEN America, and others.