South Dakota Review: Market Spotlight
For this week’s market spotlight, we look at South Dakota Review, a literary publication that seeks poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
South Dakota Review is a quarterly review that publishes literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
The editors say, "Since its inception in 1963, South Dakota Review has maintained a tradition of supporting work by contemporary writers writing from or about the American West. We hope to retain this unique flavor through particularly welcoming works by American Indian writers, writers addressing the complexities and contradictions of the 'New West,' and writers exploring themes of landscape, place, and/or eco-criticism in surprising and innovative ways."
This market pays with two contributor copies.
What They're Looking For
South Dakota Review seeks poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Prose submissions should be limited to 6,000 words; one story at a time or several flash-length pieces. Writers can submit four to six poems at a time.
The editors say, "Our aesthetic is eclectic, but we tend to favor deft use of language in both our poetry and prose selections, a diversity of voices, nuanced characterization in our fiction, and either elegantly or surprisingly executed formal strategies. We enjoy intentional, thoughtful, and original relationships between form and content. As part of our unique flavor, a small handful of works in each issue will typically engage with aspects of landscape, ecocritical issues, or place (oftentimes with respect to the American West)."
How to Submit
Potential writers can submit their work between September 1-April 30, on their Submittable page.
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
