Spirit Lake Review
Submission Guidelines
We are open for submissions from December 15th--March 1st.
Email all submissions to SpiritLakeBooU (AT) gmail (DOT) com along with a short 50-word biography in the third person in the body of your email.. While you are welcome to submit works in different genres, we request that you include all works you intend to submit for the reading period in one emailed submission. Please note that we accept simultaneous submissions as long as authors notify us at SpiritLakeBooU (AT) gmail (DOT) com as soon as a piece is accepted elsewhere.
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Prose
Authors must have a Wisconsin connection. Submit up to four unpublished short stories and/or creative nonfiction pieces in a single docx file in which your name does not appear (no more than 5000 words total). Individual stories and creative nonfiction should be no longer than 1200 words each. Please submit prose no more than once during each reading period.
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Poetry
Authors must have a Wisconsin connection. Submit up to five unpublished poems (no more than 10 pages total) in a single docx file in which your name does not appear. Please submit poems no more than once during each reading period.
Photo by Michael Heath
Visual Art
Submit up to ten visual art pieces as high-resolution JPEGs. We prefer that you include titles or captions with artwork. Please submit visual art as attachments to a single email or via a shared Google Drive folder.
Where to Submit
Please email submissions along with a 50-Word Bio to: