Spirit Lake Review
Submission Guidelines
We are open for submissions from December 15th--March 1st.
Spirit Lake Review welcomes outstanding poetry, prose, and visual art submissions by writers and artists from anywhere. As a Wisconsin-based journal, we tend to give special consideration to submissions from those with connections to our state and/or the Upper Midwest region. Email 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 submission. We accept simultaneous submissions as long as authors notify us at SpiritLakeBooU (AT) gmail (DOT) com as soon as a piece is accepted elsewhere.
Spirit Lake Review is committed to the celebration of the human experience. AI-generated poetry, prose, and visual art will not be considered.
Purple Passion by Michael Heath
Prose
Submit up to four unpublished short stories and/or creative nonfiction pieces in a single docx file in which your name does not appear (no more than 5000 words total). We tend to publisher shorter individual works (fewer than 1200 words) but are open to exceptional longer works as well. Please submit prose no more than once during each reading period.
The Ole Shed by Megan Faivre
Poetry
Submit up to five unpublished poems (no more than 10 pages total) in a single docx file in which your name does not appear.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.
American Monster #3 by Adam Felll
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: