How To Submit
Regular Issue Submissions are closed and will Return in 2026. Fellowship Submissions are open for 2025.
What We’re Looking For
With our theme shifting and shaping ever year, The Loveliest Review is subject to change, as well, on what we're particularly looking for. The constant being work that is utterly magical, controlled, bursting with beauty, breath, and every emotion in our being. Send us your best. Always, always your best.
Publication Schedule
Yearly theme announcements will be the 1st of every January, made on our two social media accounts—Twitter, @loveliest_rev, and Instagram, @the_loveliest_review. Open submissions are February 1st with submissions closing on March 1st. Decisions, declines and acceptances will be made throughout the summer. The issue and merchandise release will be around November-December.
Payment
The Loveliest Review honors a $50 honorarium per accepted piece and one contributor copy.
How to Actually Submit
All submissions should go through our email, theloveliestreview@gmail.com as as a .doc or .docx along with a cover letter.
Genres Accepted
Fiction and Nonfiction: 1000-7,500 words.
Poetry: Three pages, or less.
Drama: Hybrid, One Acts, Ten-Minute Plays, and Monologues.
Art: 1 image high quality at 300 ppi or there about. Original content, only. Please included proper credit right along with the requested title as well as a brief 150 word or less summary of the work (inspiration/artist statement). Include location if relevant.
Photography: 1 landscape-oriented (horizontal) photograph or a full two-page layout(12″x9″), keeping in mind the composition of the photo is such that subject details are not lost in the spine of the journal. Please include a brief, 100 words or less, artist statement.
Reviews: 1000-5,00 words. For full disclosure, reviews will be considered through submissions, solicitations and or personally written by our Reviews Editor in the event that we do not select anything that presently fits to the needs of our publication.
For fiction and nonfiction, we ask that all work is in Times New Roman 12pt. For drama guidelines, see below.
Play Formatting for One Acts, 10-Minutes Plays, and Monologues
Your play should not exceed a read time of 30 minutes. Please use this script timer to see if your play fits our parameters!
Please provide a front page that includes:
A character list for the speaking character, as well as any other characters mentioned in the monologue.
The scene and setting.
Number your pages using the “different first page” option, so that the numbering begins with the first page of dialogue, not the front page.
Formatting Tips to Remember
For spacing, please use single space between character name and line of dialogue BUT double space between the line of dialogue and stage directions/stage directions and character names.
For indentations:
CHARACTER NAME INDENTED 4 TABS
(STAGE DIRECTIONS BLOCK INDENTED 6 TABS IN PARENTHESIS)
Make lines even (BLOCK indent)
Character names to indicate a line of dialogue are capitalized as well as in stage directions BUT NOT in an actual line of dialogue.
Setting/Lights up stage directions are indented flush right like normal stage directions but are not in parentheses.
Short, tonal stage directions can be directly under the character name in parentheses
Dialogue is not indented and always flush left
Indicate interruptions with a dash(—)following a line of dialogue
Hybrid Plays
Due to the nature of this category, we have less guidelines! As always, please make sure your submission is in a readable format, and leave us any additional notes when you submit. Similarly, your play should not exceed 30 minutes.
Please provide a front page that includes:
A character list for the speaking character, as well as any other characters mentioned in the monologue.
The scene and setting.
Other Info
Work should not be previously published. All plays must be unpublished online or in print, but can be previously produced on stage.
How Long Does it Take to Hera Back After Submitting Work? Our response times vary between two days and up until one month. You may query us if you hav no heard anything after a 60 day period.
Are We Allowed to Submit New Work After Being Declined? The Loveliest Review asks that you do not submit any new material to be considered if declined during our open submissions period or afterwards. you may send in new work new year, during a new cycle.
The Loveliest Review does not consider or accept work of discriminatory, violent, graphic or otherwise inappropriate or abusive nature.