Rain Taxi publishes work by writers in all stages of their careers. Anyone who would like to submit a review, interview, or essay for consideration, please do the following:

1. Please include a cover letter that indicates you:
a) are submitting an original piece that has not been published elsewhere;
b) are familiar with Rain Taxi through its print magazine or Online Edition;
c) have read the "Essential Information for Reviewers" below.
R A I N T A X I submissions

2. Please include in your cover letter a note about your background, reading interests, favorite authors, and other publications (if any).

3. If submitting a review, send something approximately 500 words in length, and please indicate how you obtained the book you have selected. Please include book title, author, publisher, and price as well as page numbers for all quotations. (If submitting an interview or essay, please provide any background information that may help us evaluate it.) Writers who have previously published reviews in newspapers or serious literary magazines and would like to be considered for an assignment may send three samples instead of newly written work.

If submitting via email, please send as an RTF attachment or pasted into the body of an email. If sending via snail mail, please use our postal address:

Rain Taxi
PO Box 3840
Minneapolis, MN 55403

Include a SASE or email address for response. Simultaneous submissions are not accepted. We normally respond within one month. Please do not send submissions in the months of December and June.

For writers who would like to submit a review to be considered for publication. Submissions are accepted year-round, except for the months of June and December. Please note also that we do not accept submissions of original poetry or fiction.

Essential Information for Reviewers
Winner of the 2000 Alternative Press Award for Best Arts and Literature Coverage, the quarterly Rain Taxi Review of Books provides a place for the spirited exchange of ideas about books, particularly those overlooked by mainstream review media. While Rain Taxi focuses on current releases, it also devotes space to the discussion of older works that continue to resonate. Interviews, essays, and "Widely Unavailable" (reviews of out-of-print books) are also regular features of the magazine.

Our print issues usually appear in March, May, September, November. An accompanying Online Edition with additional material is published shortly after each print issue.

Assignments
If you become a regular reviewer for Rain Taxi, note that we assign books according to the reviewer's interest. If a book assigned for review turns out to be uninspiring, we will usually be happy to assign something else. While we generally prefer to use our limited space for discussion of books that are worthwhile, negative reviews that engage larger issues are certainly welcome. Article lengths and deadlines are determined upon assignment. Reviewers are also encouraged to discuss ideas for press profiles, interviews, and other feature-length essays with the editor.

Ethical Standards
In the small press community it is often common for friends and colleagues to support each other by 'reviewing' each other's work. We discourage this practice, however, believing that a higher standard of objectivity is expected by our readership. We realize that there are degrees-writers often meet other writers and just knowing someone doesn't mean you're in cahoots - but please be up front with us about any connections you may have to writers and publishers of work you are reviewing. And of course, instead of sending us work that promotes your friends, you can always tell us about their achievements - this often results in our directing their work to another reader.

Editing
We reserve the right to edit, though major content or style edits are always discussed with the writer before publication. We also reserve the right not to publish work that we feel does not meet our editorial standards or is in conflict with our mission and aesthetic. Material may be published in either our print issue, Rain Taxi Review of Books, or in our Online Edition at R A I N T A X I submissions.

Copyright
Rain Taxi holds the copyright to all articles published. Copyright reverts to the author one year after publication, though Rain Taxi should always be credited as the original source. Please discuss with us any reprint plans.

Payment
Our contributing writers are truly "contributing"-as a nonprofit organization, Rain Taxi does not have the means to pay (except in copies) the more than 5 dozen writers who write for each issue. We invest our resources instead in maintaining our high circulation and good reputation, making Rain Taxi a place where our contributing writers will be widely read and proud to be published.