Thank you for you interest in Coal Hill Review. Please check out individual guidelines for each genre. We accept submissions all year long, and our response time is 1-3 months.
If you have a question about the submission process, please feel free to email us at info@coalhillreview.com.
Pittsburgh authors, feel free to submit poems, fiction, or creative nonfiction to us! Our definition of Pittsburgh writer is simply that you live or have spent a significant time in the city. The pieces submitted do not need to be Pittsburgh themed.
Poetry
- Send 3-5 poems for consideration (no more than 10 pages worth of work please)
Fiction
- Send 1-2 short stories (2,500 words or less)
- Send a stand-alone excerpt from a novel (2,500 words or less)
- Send 2-3 flash pieces (each piece should be 600 words or less)
Creative Nonfiction
- Send 1-2 essays (2,500 words or less)
- Send a stand-alone excerpt from a memoir (2,500 words or less)
- Send a micro-essays or flash pieces of CNF (each piece should be 600 words or less)
- Send 3-5 poems for consideration (no more than 10 pages worth of work please)
- Send 1-2 short stories (2,500 words or less)
- Send a stand-alone excerpt from a novel (2,500 words or less)
- Send 2-3 flash pieces (each piece should be 600 words or less)
- Send 1-2 essays (2,500 words or less)
- Send a stand-alone excerpt from a memoir (2,500 words or less)
- Send a micro-essays or flash pieces of CNF (each piece should be 600 words or less)
- We only accept reviews of books published by independent and university presses
- Special consideration is given to books by emerging and/or debut authors as well as to books that have received little press coverage
- Reviews should be around 1,000 words
- We seek balanced, critical book reviews
