Editor Interview: Notre Dame Review

Writing of literary merit

Literary journals from Antioch Review to Zyzzyva.

The writers we publish; consult our index.

The tastes of the editors.

Look at our previous issues and see if your writing shares the qualities of our past contributors.

One you know will be accepted from the first sentence or paragraph or stanza.

That it should take less time than it does.

Information matters but it isn't critical.

With poetry, usually all; with prose, enough.

At least three individuals have read through the submission.

A stack of mss., a person in a chair, silence.