Washington Square Review

The Books Team at Washington Square Review welcomes submissions of literary criticism for online publication. Check out our Instagram for a list of Independent Presses with titles we’d love to see reviewed. Send a pitch or draft to books.wsr@gmail.com

We are accepting poems for the New Voices Award! Note: fee waivers are available for writers who are Black, Indigenous, of Palestinian descent, other writers of color, & those for whom the fee presents a financial hardship. For more info, visit: washingtonsquarereview.com/newvoicesaward

✨ REMINDER ✨ Our general submissions window for Issue 54 ends on Feb 1st. Start polishing your pieces & hit that submit button! We are closed for poetry under general submissions. BUT, accepting poems for the New Voices Award. For more info, visit: washingtonsquarereview.com/submit

Author Highlight ✨✨✨ Joseph Paul Alvarado’s debut short story “The Tenderness” published in Washington Square Review Issue 52 Read the full story and all of Issue 52 on our website!

DEADLINE EXTENDED 📣 Submissions for our New Voices Award for emerging writers, judged by Parul Sehgal, will now close on October 15th. Submit your nonfiction! Fee waivers available. Visit our website for more information and submission guidelines.

We are accepting submissions for our New Voices Award for emerging writers! The deadline is October 1st. Please note that we have fee waivers! And be sure to check out our website for more submission information ✍️ ✍️✍️

Our Fiction submissions are closed but… Please keep submitting for our open genres and our New Voices Award!✨ And check out our website for more submission information

Remember to send in your fiction submissions before we reach our cap at 500! And please visit our website for more information on Issue 53 submissions and our New Voices Award.

Washington Square Review is… 🥁🥁🥁 OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS 🥳 Submit your work! And visit our website for more info on submissions for Issue 53 & our New Voices Award! Links in our bio!

and here’s the second page of “Of Course It’s on FaceTime that Sam Calls Me…”

i’ve got two new poems in the latest washington square review (@on_squ)! here’s the first page of one of them—with of course a very normal title of normal length. (page 2 in thread.) it’s about love, lack of love, & how long hurt can last. both poems :: washingtonsquarereview.com/chen-chen

“Gish flexes poetic, permitting Ada to expound on the beauty of an owl skull or the warmth of a winter’s hearth, the simplicity of walking alone through nature—life’s simplest pleasures.” Head to our website to read our latest book review by @sc_trott washingtonsquarereview.com/online-exclusi…

Contributor @kristina_ten has a new story in @on_squ! Read it here: buff.ly/3QXbXqs

“Ito, first and foremost a poet, knows how to turn a seemingly disjointed series of images and memories into discerning meditation.” Head to our website to read our latest book review by Claire Huffman. washingtonsquarereview.com/online-exclusi…

I’ve got a story called “Kamchatka” in the new issue of @on_squ, about a woman who runs away from her problems—all the way to the second-most densely concentrated geyser field on Earth. Which is basically its own (big, scalding, ready-to-erupt-at-any-second) problem, right?

“By refusing to allow us the satisfaction of June’s defeat, Kuang reminds us that whiteness is a resilient and mutating force.” Head to our website to read our latest book review by @katiermckay washingtonsquarereview.com/online-exclusi…

To celebrate the release of Issue 51, we've released contributor Steven J. Epstein's meditation on translating Triskaidekaman's S*lent -- the first lipogrammatic novel published in Indonesian: washingtonsquarereview.com/stephen-j-epst…