Submissions

Me, upon receiving your fantastic and horrific work.

UPDATE

Submissions are tentatively open as of August 14th. I have been working through the backlog with the assistance of Lila.

For all the folks that have submitted, we have a backlog back to May that I am still sorting through. If you need to withdraw your submission at any time, please let us know, but please know that we do accept reprints.

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 in any file format 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.

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