Writer's Guidelines

Alaska Quarterly Review is a literary journal devoted to contemporary literary art, publishing fiction, short plays, poetry and literary non-fiction in traditional and experimental styles. The editors encourage new and emerging writers, while continuing to publish award winning and established writers.

The editors invite submissions of fiction, short plays, poetry, and literary nonfiction in traditional and experimental styles:

FICTION: Short stories and novel excerpts in traditional and experimental styles (generally not exceeding 50 pages).

POETRY: Poems in traditional and experimental styles but no light verse (up to 20 pages).

PROSE: Literary nonfiction in traditional and experimental styles (generally not exceeding 50 pages).

DRAMA: Short plays in traditional and experimental styles (generally not exceeding 50 pages).


Please include your contact information in your cover letter and/or on your manuscript: mailing address, phone number, and email address if available. All manuscripts must be typed and accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE). Unless a SASE is enclosed with your submission, you will not hear from us unless we are interested in publishing your manuscript. We try to reply within 6 to 16 weeks.


Send all correspondence, business and editorial, to the following:
Editors
Alaska Quarterly Review
University of Alaska Anchorage
3211 Providence Drive
Anchorage, AK 99508

Important notes:

1. Unsolicited manuscripts are read between August 15 and May 15.
2. Although we respond to e-mail queries, we cannot review electronic submissions.
3. We review simultaneous submissions and request that they be identified as such in the cover letter.