Submissions.

Despite efforts to have the World Unknown Review return from hiatus by early 2023, “LIFE” has swept in and happened in a very big way for us, which has put a delay on our plans to start publishing again. Or at least so soon.

After careful consideration, we have decided to try a different approach to how we publish our work. Instead of following a set schedule for now, we will be experimenting with a “as we meet our needs” style of reading stories. What does this mean?

Basically, we are open to submissions at all times, and we will publish each volume as soon as we feel we’ve collected enough stories that fit our vision for the World Unknown Review. Hopefully, this means that while we will not be publishing at a set pace, we will be publishing only the best work that crosses our desks, with a very clear vision of the type of quality we wish to bring our readers.

It may mean we wind up with lots of stories to publish and will put out volumes quickly. It may mean there may be a lull when either submissions slow or we feel the stories we’ve been sent just don’t fit quite what we’re looking for.

If you have submitted for the prospective 2022/2023 volume, we are still reading through submissions and hope to let you know our thought soon. It has been an unexpectedly rocky time getting the relaunch going again, but we hope to be more focused toward the goal of publishing again in the coming months, if not straight into 2023.

Thank you for your patience; we are a very small operation, and we’re still working out a lot of kinks.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Submissions will now be accepted year round; publication dates will vary. We’re looking for a little bit of everything, the kind of stories we don’t know we need until we see it, so please send us your best fiction, poetry, essays, art, or whatever else in between. There are no genre, theme, or word limitations, although anything over 17,500 words will fall automatically into the novella competition. There is no entry fee, and writers may send in as many works as they like, though only one is likely to be chosen for any given volume. Authors will receive $15 USD ($30 for the winning novella) and three contributors copies.

Please send submissions or questions to ellis.engler@gmail.com , preferably in .doc, .docx, or .rft form. Please, no PDFs.