Dear Fear: Submission with Editorial Review Fee: usd $30.00

In an effort to reduce submission fees while also increase the payment to our contributors, we have opted to offer a submission with editorial (or portfolio) review option. We have seen this process work beautifully for literary magazines and acknowledge their leadership in this area.

All fees collected from this editorial review option will go directly to our publication's payment of the writers included in the anthology.

Editorial review is intended for writers and artists seeking developmental level insight into their work. It is not a copyediting or line-editing service. Instead, an editorial review focuses on the construction, pacing, and organization of a piece. It looks for gaps, inconsistencies, or places where readers are pulled out of the experience of a piece.

An editorial review includes a two to three page letter summarizing what the editors of Dear Fear discovered in reading or experiencing your piece. It incudes references to craft as well as provides references to published pieces by other writers that exemplify the elements the editors have found need strengthening.

This option does not promise acceptance of your piece. However, opting for editorial review early in the submission window will allow for resubmission (with fees waved) of your piece. This may give writers who are experimenting with new voices, approaches, or elements in their work both insight into how those elements are working as well as greater likelihood of having their piece accepted on resubmission.

To give our submitters the greatest chance of resubmission, we prioritize submissions in this category.

Please review our submission guidelines above for your category before submitting.