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General Submission Guidelines

Submissions to The Core Review and The Juice Blog are always free, although we encourage you to support us by purchasing our titles, buying our merchandise, or making a financial contribution. Submissions to The Slice Contest are $20. Contributions do not impact publication decisions.

We accept simultaneous submissions. If your piece is accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible.

The Core Review and The Juice Blog requests first serial rights, and all rights revert back to the author upon publication. Authors retain copyright to their work published in The Core Review and The Juice Blog. If the work is later republished, we request that you note its initial publication in The Core Review or The Juice Blog. We also request the right, with author permission, to use your work for promotional purposes. We ask that authors who are accepted with us wait 2 years before submitting work again.

Visit publication-specific pages below to read more genre-dependent guidelines and to submit.

Our Submission Calendar

The Core Review

Spring Issue
Submission Period

January 1

April 1

The Slice Contest

Short Story Collection
Submission Period

July 1

The Core Review

Fall Issue
Submission Period

October 1

The Slice Contest

Poetry Chapbook
Submission Period

January 1

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