Submit to The Fourth River
by Salvatore Pane
My boy Robert (Stevens) Yune asked me to pimp his journal. I shall. Submit my fellow writer friends, submit!
Submission Guidelines
The Fourth River Online is the online literary journal of Chatham University’s MFA Program. We are looking for submissions that explore the relationship between people and their environments, both natural and built, urban, rural or wild.
Recent contributors to the print journal include Astrid Cabral, Laila al-Atrash, Hillary Wentworth, Michael Byers, and Evan Morgan Williams. Our contributors have published in Birmingham Poetry Review, Glimmer Train, Alaska Quarterly Review, Witness, and The Missouri Review; they have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and Best American Travel Writing. The Fourth River Online uses the same editorial staff and guidelines as the print version, and we look forward to providing contributor interviews and features on the site’s front page.
The Fourth River Online accepts unpublished poetry, literary short fiction, and creative nonfiction. Please send up to three poems or one prose piece up to 4,000 words.
- Reading Period: November 30-March 31, 2010
- We accept simultaneous submissions if indicated on the cover letter; please let us know immediately if a piece is accepted elsewhere.
- The Fourth River Online website goes live in the summer of 2011
- We do not publish writing for children or Young Adult audiences
Submission Address: 4thriversubmissions@gmail.com
Please attach all submissions as Microsoft Word or PDF documents. Poems can be in a single document. Include the cover letter in the document itself.
Please indicate your name, genre, and title in the email subject line. For example, John Smith’s short story “Red Bird” would appear as “Smith, fiction, “Red Bird.”Fourth River Submissions!
We look forward to reading your work!
Technically, it’s Peter Oresick’s journal. Even more technically, it’s Sheryl St. Germain’s journal, since she’s the Executive Editor.
Why don’t I have a better icon? It looks like a cubist button, and not in a good way. Ugh.
since Robert knows me can i just give him a story and be in it? Robert, let’s just cut out the middle man. i’ll be in the next issue then please thanks. i’ll give you a story right now. I’m standing behind you! take my story. i scratch at your window hi! no seriously i’ll just hand it to you and you push it through. be firm. but change the name to Fourth Shiver cause it gets cold outside your window at night. I’ll give you an abacus i just made from apple cores, too. payola! it’s how i keep track of the days, but it’s yours. hook me up dude. i want to be in all the issues from now on if that’s cool.
Something is not right with you, Dave.