Ray's Road Review

This project is on indefinite hiatus. Check their site to find out whether this is a submission and/or publication hiatus. (July 2016)

About

Continuously updating and on the web since 2002, RRR’s goal is simply to publish stellar works of art, regardless of medium. We originate from Southwest Virginia, but great art and the internet dissolve any divides of time and space. Am I right? Do I hear an amen?

Country of Publication

United States

Publication Medium & Frequency

Electronic Publication Electronic Publication: Published 4 x per year

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Don’t send anything genre-fied. If adjectives like “edgy,” “quirky,” “offbeat,” and “funny” describe your work, well good for you, submit away.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:

General

Lengths:

Flash Fiction: No specific word count limits known (our definition: up to 1000 words).
Short Story: No specific word count limits known (our definition: 1000 to 7500 words).

Styles:

Unknown

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Unknown.
Media: Text.

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We are not looking for anecdotes, we are looking for insights—flashes of the human experience that change the way we breathe, points of view that make us laugh, or cry, or poke the stranger sitting next to us at Starbucks and say “Dude, you gotta read this.”

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Lengths:

Essay: 250 - 3,000 words.
Narrative Nonfiction: 250 - 3,000 words.

Styles:

Unknown

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics including...
Memoir.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

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Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:

General

Lengths:

Poem: No line limits known; 2 - 6 pieces.

Poetry Forms:

Open to all/most Forms.

Styles:

Unknown

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are NOT allowed.
Media: Text.

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Last Updated: 22 May 2026