RRR sometimes solicits work from people whose work we like. However, if you’re interested in publishing on RRR and we haven’t solicited work from you, do the following: send all fiction submissions to rrrfictioneditor@gmail.com; send poetry submissions to rrrpoetryeditor@gmail.com. Send all other submissions to our main email address: raysroadreview@gmail.com. RRR has one-time electronic publishing rights for your work, but we reserve the right to include your work in any future online and/ or print publication(s)/ anthologies. Payment? You’re funny. What a card you are.

Fiction: Don’t send anything genre-fied. If adjectives like “edgy,” “quirky,” “offbeat,” and “funny” describe your work, well good for you, submit away. RRR steers clear from Hallmark Channel-esque sentimentality. Though this is a journal meant for adults, RRR is not into gratuitous anything–sex, violence, clogging, what have you. But we’re also not prudish at RRR. Like Greg’s coat in “The Brady Bunch” if what you’re conveying “fits,” well good, send it to RRR. Ask yourself: do I like Flannery O’Connor? If the answer is yes, then send some of your writing/ photos/ etc., because you’re obviously somebody with a little sense. However, if the last thing you read could be purchased from the checkout line at your local Piggly Wiggly, well, maybe you should mozy elsewhere. That said, RRR ain’t pretentious, folks. We’ve been known to read a little King, a little Grisham.  But on balance, are you pretty much of a simpleton or not? Think about it.

Poetry:

• Submit 2-5 poems at a time.
• Include name, email address & brief bio (75 words max) with submission.
• Open to any form, style, length & subject matter – with one exception: No rhyming poetry.
• No simultaneous submissions.
• Previously published poems are open to submission. List publication in which poem originally appeared, as well as date/year, etc. No poems will be accepted if they have been published (even on a personal blog) within the last six months prior to your RRR submission.
• Submit poems either in the body of your email message, or attached as a Word document. If attached, send only ONE attachment containing all of poems being submitted – not four or five separate attachments, etc.
• Proof your work before submitting it. Seriously.
• Do not request poetry critiques. We’re not an MFA program.
• Typical response time is 3-6 weeks.

Good luck and RRR applauds your efforts.

Best–Chris Duncan (RRR’s founder, fiction editor, and Ray’s faithful manservant).