Independence Literary Review

While we accept topics of all themes, each of our issues contains a smaller, themed folio. Our first themed folio, “Healthcare and Healing,” will feature your creative explorations of healthcare, illness, and healing in their manifold forms.

We want work that opens new windows of understanding into the body and the mind and the ways they can rupture, be repaired, be reconfigured, and be re-understood. We want to facilitate a conversation about what it means to care for ourselves and others with compassion, and the ways in which art can be a beacon of light in the process.

You may submit within any category if you feel it applies to this folio: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and art.

We will also consider entries submitted to our regular categories of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and art for this folio.

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Please submit one double-spaced creative nonfiction piece up to 7,500 words. In addition to personal essays, lyric essays, essays on place, and cultural criticism, we welcome graphic essays and speculative memoir. We do not publish academic writing.

We also welcome flash essays of 1,000 words or less. To submit flash essays, please submit up to 3 double-spaced pieces in one document. Please withdraw your whole submission only if all pieces are no longer available. To withdraw a single piece, please add a note to your submission with the title that is no longer available.

We pay between $50 and $200 based on word count.

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Please submit one double-spaced short story up to 7,500 words.

We also welcome flash fiction of 1,000 words or less. To submit flash fiction, please submit up to 3 double-spaced pieces in one document. Please withdraw your whole submission only if all pieces are no longer available. To withdraw a single piece, please add a note to your submission with the title that is no longer available.

We pay between $50 and $200 based on word count.

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Please submit up to 5 single-spaced poems in one document, with a maximum of 15 total pages.

Please withdraw your whole submission only if all poems are no longer available. To withdraw a single poem, please add a note to your submission with the title that is no longer available.

We pay $50 for the first poem per poet, and $25 per poem thereafter.

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We publish eight works of art from 2 artists per issue, one focused on our folio theme. We welcome your original, innovative art in multiple genres including painting, sculpture, photography, and video art.

Please send one pdf portfolio of 8-10 of your best works. Please include each work’s title, date, material, and dimensions. You are welcome to submit works that have been previously exhibited or showcased elsewhere, as long as there are no restrictions on rights or display.

We pay $100 per artist.

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