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The Seattle Review

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This project is on indefinite hiatus. Check their site to find out whether this is a submission and/or publication hiatus. (February 2019)

About

The Seattle Review is a journal wholly committed to the publication of longer works of poetry, novellas, and lyric essays.

Fees Notice: This project charges fees (or requires purchases) for some submissions. They charge fees for some submission periods.

Country of Publication & Year Established

United States
Established in 1977

Publication Medium & Frequency

Electronic Publication Electronic Publication
Unknown publication frequency

Collapse section Fiction On Hiatus

We are looking for exceptional, risk-taking, intellectual and imaginative (as if these two could ever be separated) novellas.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:

General

Lengths:

Novelette: 10,000 - 15,000 words.
Novella: 15,000 - 22,500 words.
Novel Excerpt: No specific word count limits known.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

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

Collapse section Nonfiction On Hiatus

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Lengths:

Essay: More than 10,000 words.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

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

Collapse section Poetry On Hiatus

We are looking for exceptional, risk-taking, intellectual and imaginative (as if these two could ever be separated) poems. The long poem can be: a single long poem in its entirety, a self-contained excerpt from a book-length poem, or a unified sequence or series of poems.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:

General

Lengths:

Poem: No line limits known; Unknown number of pieces.

Poetry Forms:

Long poetry.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

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

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The Seattle Review Submission Statistics

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This listing is inactive and does not have any submission reports for the past 12 months.

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Seattle Review Chapbook Contest CLOSED  Charges fees for all submissions

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Dates

Last Updated: 22 May 2026

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