ask the editors
of the Southampton review
Yes. There’s a wonderful site where our rejections, and those of many other literary journals, are categorized: www.rejectionwiki.com.
Each reading period we receive around 1,500 submissions. Per print issue, we publish roughly 15 pieces that come to us via Submittable.
TSR Online, published once per week, is almost entirely comprised of pieces submitted to us through Submittable.
We pay contributors whose work appear in the print edition—with the exception of anyone currently on the New York State payroll or who has been on the New York State payroll within the previous two years (this includes ALL New York State departments and institutions).
Additionally, our contributors receive a copy of the issue in which they appear. TSR Online contributors receive a one-year subscription.
We love publishing debut authors! It’s up to you if you want to let us know in your cover letter whether you’re previously unpublished.
We recommend waiting at least two issues since the one in which you were published to resubmit to us.
If the story has plot, good characters, world building, clarity, and voice, we’ll absolutely consider it.
Two. Winter/Spring is published in November. Summer/Fall is published in April.