Deadline: April 15, 2025 at 1:59 p.m
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SUMMER 2025 — ISSUE #23
Theme: Power
We support the Stonecoast community’s goal to promote inclusivity, equity, and social justice through writing.
Genres Accepted: We solicit fiction, pop (genre) fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, dramatic works, experimental literature, and visual art. We can’t wait to see your best pieces! Stonecoast Review offers feedback on selected submissions.
Issue Format: Beginning with Issue 21, released in June 2024, Stonecoast Review assumed the form of a print/online hybrid journal. The print form now consists of a 48-page chapbook, with full color art throughout, as well as a QR code that directs readers to more new content on StonecoastReview.org. As such, all pieces selected for publication will be featured online but, due to page limitations, only a select number of pieces will be able to be featured in the print Issue. Please see below for new guidelines regarding word count limitations for each type of publication.
We want to read literature and take in media that explore, provoke, challenge, reconsider, evoke, or explode that concept for you.
Submission GuidelinesSend submissions via Submittable only.
Genre Guidelines
As a reminder, all pieces selected for publication will be featured online in June 2025. Due to page constraints, only a few of these selected pieces will be featured in both the print and online Summer 2025 Issue. Please see below for word count limitations based on consideration for either Hybrid (Print + Online) or General (Online-only) publication formats.
Dramatic Works. We are seeking short dramatic works of all types. Plays, screenplays, and hybrid works including monologues, one-minute scripts, ten-minute scripts, and experimental works are all welcome. Excerpts from longer dramatic works are welcome if they stand on their own. We are interested in pieces that represent diverse voices and creatively explore the many facets of power, including the presence and absence of it.
Limit submissions to five pieces.
SUMMER 2025 — ISSUE #23
Theme: Power
What do you think of when you hear the word “power”? What does it mean to have power? What does it mean to use it? What does it mean to abuse it? How does it feel when it’s taken away?
The word connotes different definitions and bears different weights for each of us. It manifests itself in unexpected ways and settings, and remains absent or suppressed in so many others.
The word connotes different definitions and bears different weights for each of us. It manifests itself in unexpected ways and settings, and remains absent or suppressed in so many others.
We support the Stonecoast community’s goal to promote inclusivity, equity, and social justice through writing.
Genres Accepted: We solicit fiction, pop (genre) fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, dramatic works, experimental literature, and visual art. We can’t wait to see your best pieces! Stonecoast Review offers feedback on selected submissions.
Issue Format: Beginning with Issue 21, released in June 2024, Stonecoast Review assumed the form of a print/online hybrid journal. The print form now consists of a 48-page chapbook, with full color art throughout, as well as a QR code that directs readers to more new content on StonecoastReview.org. As such, all pieces selected for publication will be featured online but, due to page limitations, only a select number of pieces will be able to be featured in the print Issue. Please see below for new guidelines regarding word count limitations for each type of publication.
We want to read literature and take in media that explore, provoke, challenge, reconsider, evoke, or explode that concept for you.
Submission GuidelinesSend submissions via Submittable only.
- Please include a short cover letter and bio (50- and 100-word max., respectively).
- We accept one prose submission, one poetry submission (of up to three poems), or five pieces of visual art per author, per submission cycle. Submissions that do not abide by these rules will not be considered for publication.
- Your work must be previously unpublished. (Stonecoast alumni may submit already published work for consideration as reprints.)
- We encourage simultaneous submissions. However, please withdraw your submission immediately if it’s accepted elsewhere. If you submit multiple poems and one is accepted at another publication, please attach a note on Submittable identifying which poem is no longer available.
- Please adhere to standard manuscript format: Double spaced, 12 pt., Times New Roman font. Poetry may be single spaced. (If you tell us that diverging from these rules is integral to your piece, we will consider it.)
- While we love to represent stories with raw, emotional truth, we ask that you refrain from submitting pieces featuring excessive sex, violence, assaults, or suicide.
- We will reject pieces determined to be written by the use of AI software.
Genre Guidelines
As a reminder, all pieces selected for publication will be featured online in June 2025. Due to page constraints, only a few of these selected pieces will be featured in both the print and online Summer 2025 Issue. Please see below for word count limitations based on consideration for either Hybrid (Print + Online) or General (Online-only) publication formats.
Dramatic Works. We are seeking short dramatic works of all types. Plays, screenplays, and hybrid works including monologues, one-minute scripts, ten-minute scripts, and experimental works are all welcome. Excerpts from longer dramatic works are welcome if they stand on their own. We are interested in pieces that represent diverse voices and creatively explore the many facets of power, including the presence and absence of it.
Limit submissions to five pieces.
One submission per author, per submission cycle, of up to five pieces.