Seattle-based Crab Creek Review is a woman-run journal publishing new voices, as well as emerging and established writers. Discover your new favorite poet by subscribing today!
Open Call for Creative Nonfiction
Send one piece up to 1,000 words per submission period. We’re looking to publish fresh perspectives from diverse voices—essays where race, ethnicity, pop culture, class, identity, gender, humor, sexuality, diasporas, and language intersect. We want to read exceptional narratives that illuminate the range of bitter and sweet that is human existence. Regardless of topic, we’re looking for well-crafted prose that exhibits depth and nuance, a clear voice, personal reflection, and vivid scenes. Experimental and non-traditional forms welcome. We do not publish literary criticism, scholarly articles, or straight reportage. Double-spaced, 12-point standard font. Revisions may be made upon acceptance; do not withdraw and resubmit your work due to revision concerns.
Revisions may be made upon acceptance; please do not withdraw and resubmit your work due to revision concerns.
General Manuscript Guidelines
Title your document with the title and your name. (i.e: TITLE_Adrienne Rich).
Include a cover letter in the provided space (not in the document). Include your mailing address, email, and social media handles (where relevant), a 50-word bio, and the title of the pieces you are submitting.
Should you submit something that is under simultaneous consideration, please indicate this in your cover letter, and notify us immediately by adding a note to your Submittable account if the piece is accepted elsewhere. Send your work as a SINGLE attachment; docx preferred. (.doc; .docx; .rtf; PDF). We aim for a response time of 8 weeks, but please do not query your submission status unless 3 months have passed.
Our current payment is in the form of one copy of the issue for which your work has been accepted. We buy first rights as well as the rights to use your name and the accepted work (in whole or part) on our website. Beyond this use, and following publication, rights revert to the author. We ask that Crab Creek Review be acknowledged in any subsequent publication of the work.
We look forward to reading your work!
Submission Guidelines
Open reading period September 15 – September 25. Looking for originality, risk-taking, and consummate craftsmanship. Payment is one contributor copy of the issue in which the work appears. Simultaneous submissions allowed; please let us know immediately, by adding a note to your Submittable account, if the piece is accepted elsewhere.
General Manuscript Guidelines:
Send one piece up to 1,000 words or up to two micro-essays (500 words max each) per submission period. Regardless of topic, we’re looking to publish well-crafted concise prose that exhibits depth and nuance, a clear voice, personal reflection, and vivid scenes. Experimental and non-traditional forms are very welcome. We do not publish literary criticism, scholarly articles, or straight reportage. Double-spaced, 12-point standard font.
Submission Guidelines
Open reading period September 15–November 15. Looking for originality, risk-taking, and consummate craftsmanship in all genres. Simultaneous submissions welcome. No fee. Payment is one contributor copy of the issue in which the work appears.
Revisions may be made upon acceptance; please do not withdraw and resubmit your work due to revision concerns. We have a limited allotment of submissions each month (300), so please do not submit more than once in a reading period, and do not withdraw and resubmit your work. If you are concerned about a submitting error, you may leave a message in Submittable to bring it to our attention.
General Manuscript Guidelines:
Title your document with title and name (i.e: TITLE_Jericho Brown).
Include a cover letter in the provided space (not in the document). Include your mailing address, email, and social media handles (where relevant) a 50-word third-person bio, and the titles of the pieces you are submitting.
Should you submit something that is under simultaneous consideration, please indicate this in your cover letter, and notify us immediately by adding a note to your Submittable account if the piece is accepted elsewhere. Only original, previously unpublished work will be considered.
Send your work as a SINGLE attachment; docx preferred, but can accept .doc; .docx; .rtf; PDF.
Please submit no more than one batch of poems or one prose piece per reading period.
We aim for a response time of 8 weeks, but please do not query your submission status unless 3 months have passed.
Send up to 4 poems, no more than 8 pages total. We welcome your best work, and have no restrictions on form or content except that we will not consider work that is discriminatory, defamatory, or work that promotes intolerance or hatred. 12pt standard font. One batch of submissions per reading period. Revisions may be made upon acceptance; do not withdraw and resubmit your work due to revision concerns.
Our current payment is in the form of one copy of the issue for which your work has been accepted. We buy first rights as well as the rights to use your name and the accepted work (in whole or part) on our website. Beyond this use, and following publication, rights revert to the author. We ask that Crab Creek Review be acknowledged in any subsequent publication of the work.
Submission Guidelines
Open reading period September 15–September 25. Looking for originality, risk-taking, and consummate craftsmanship. $4.00 FAST LANE fee includes a 10-day response time. Payment is one contributor copy of the issue in which the work appears. Simultaneous submissions allowed; please let us know immediately, by adding a note to your Submittable account, if the piece is accepted elsewhere.
General Manuscript Guidelines:
Title your document with your name and the genre. (i.e: GwendolynBrooks_Poetry).
Include a cover letter in the provided space (not in the document). Please include a 50-word bio and the title/s of the poems you are submitting, and whether this is a simultaneous submission. Only original, previously unpublished work will be considered.
Send your work as a SINGLE attachment (.doc; .docx; .rtf; PDF).
Send up to 4 poems, no more than 8 pages total. We welcome your best work, and have no restrictions on form or content. You may submit as many times as you like, but each submission requires payment of the FAST LANE fee of $4.00. Revisions may be made upon acceptance.
Our current payment is in the form of one copy of the issue for which your work has been accepted. Crab Creek Review hopes to be able to compensate our contributors in the future, and regret we are unable to do so at this time. We buy first rights as well as the rights to use your name and the accepted work (in whole or part) on our website and blog. Beyond this use, and following publication, rights revert to the author. We ask that Crab Creek Review be acknowledged in any subsequent publication of the work.
Order your copy of Crab Creek Review's 2023 Spring/Summer issue here!
From cathedrals to dance floors to climate change, this issue tackles our loftiest questions while celebrating the most personal. It shifts from deep meditations to startling crystallizations as each work takes on a new form and shape. With this latest issue, you'll find writing from Jory Mickelson, Jared Beloff, Rebecca Martin, Rodrigo Toscano, Julia Mallory, Shilo Niziolek, Sarah Dalton, Forester McClatchey, Shannon K. Winston, David J. Bauman, Melody Wilson, Stephanie L Harper, Benjamid D. Carson, Carolyn Oliver, Jane Zwart, Jude Dexter, Lauren Camp among so, so many others. And we can't wait to share them all with you.
Subscribe to Crab Creek Review, a Seattle-based literary journal featuring poets and writers from the Pacific Northwest and all around the globe. Crab Creek Review has been bringing brilliant, original poetry and prose to Seattle and the rest of the world since 1983. We appreciate your support!