Submission Windows

NONFICTION: SEPTEMBER 1  to SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

POETRY: OCTOBER 6 to OCTOBER 20, 2024

FICTION: NOVEMBER 17  to DECEMBER 5,  2024

Alaska Quarterly Review (www.aqrreview.org) is a literary journal devoted to contemporary literary art, publishing fiction, short plays, poetry, photo essays, and literary non-fiction in traditional and experimental styles. Founded in 1982, it is published in collaboration with the Center for the Narrative and Lyric Arts and the Anchorage Museum. 

The editors encourage new and emerging writers, while continuing to publish award winning and established writers. Works originally published in AQR have appeared in the following awards collections:

Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards; The Best American Poetry; The Best American Short Stories; The Pushcart Prize: The Best of the Small Presses; The Best American Essays; The Best American Nonrequired Reading; The Best American Mystery Stories; and The Beacon Best: Creative Writing by Women and Men of All Colors.

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