Submissions

Us, upon receiving your fantastic and horrific work.

THEMED CALL:

Our January themed call is “Sound and Music”. Get creative, get spooky, and show us your best horror that focuses around what is audible.

If you are submitting to this call, please ensure that “January Call” is somewhere in your email subject. Our general pool is always open if you have something else you’d like to send us.

The Dread Literary Review is always open for submissions for weekly shorts and monthly magazines. We publish poetry, flash fiction (under 1k words) and short fiction (up to 5k words).

Please submit your work as a word doc or a .pdf to thedreadliteraryreview@gmail.com. At this time we are not able to offer payment for work, but fingers crossed for the future!

Simultaneous submissions are okay. Previously published work is also okay, so long as you retain the rights to your work. Our writers and poets retain their rights to this work, we only take rights to one-time internet publication.

Cover letters are encouraged, even if you just want to talk about your favorite scary movies. At least give yourself an author bio detailing where you’re from.

AI will never be permitted.

We will always respond with either an acceptance or a rejection, so please be patient with us as we read all of your submissions.

Please note that the Dread is a literary magazine for horror and speculative writing. Writing in other genres will not be considered for publication.