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Submission Guidlines

Thank you for your interest in River Styx. As a multicultural journal of poetry, prose and art, River Styx publishes works of both new and established artists significant for their originality, energy and deft of craft. The high quality of its form and content have made it a leader among literary magazines for 30 years. River Styx has been included in the 1994, 1996, and 1998 editions of the Best American Poetry Anthology, and New Stories from the South. We publish poetry, short fiction, essays, interviews, drawings and photographs. If your work is the best that it can be and you deem it fits with the established style and content of our magazine, please send it to River Styx.

 

**The 2007 River Styx International Poetry Contest**

Guidelines for Writers

All submissions and correspondence must include a SASE with sufficient postage.

Work must be received between May and November. Work received outside of our reading period will be returned unread.

We will read simultaneous submissions, but ask that you inform us of such and notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.

Please do not send handwritten submissions.

Translations are welcome if permission has been granted from owner of the copyright.

Expect three to five months for a decision. Please do not query us or send another manuscript until five months have passed.

Send three to five poems.

Send one story at a time.

No e-mail submissions will be accepted.

Guidelines for Visual Artists

To be considered, work must be received between September and November.

5x7 or 8x10 photographs are preferred, though we will consider slides.

Artists must include return postage with submissions.

Allow 3-5 months for a response.