Spectacular Fiction and Non

Issue Six Prose Contributors

Fiction

B.J. Hollars (Winner, Fiction Award), Conservation Status of Least Concern [link]
Mike Young (Finalist, Fiction Award), Burk’s Nub
Joe Oestreich (Finalist, Fiction Award), Trouble Doll
Tina Egnoski, Veterans of a Foreign War
Michael Shannon, Encounter [link]

Issue Five Prose Contributors

Fiction

George Singleton, Shooting Republicans [excerpt]
Douglas Watson, Against Specificty [story]
Rebecca Hall, Ise
David Bell, Cancer Planet
Sue Allison, Fairy Tale [story]

Issue Four Prose Contributors

Fiction

Roy Kesey, Pájaro Loco [link]
Jennifer F. Estaris, The Restraint That Makes Us Human (Winner, Fiction Award)
Michael Stigman, We Are Hot Boyztm: Seven Memos [link]
David Driscoll, Panels (Finalist, Fiction Award)
Sheryl Monks, A Girl at His Show (Finalist, Fiction Award)
Laura Cruser, Backseat Driver (Finalist, Fiction Award)
Shellie Zacharia, Parade of Champions [link]

Issue Three Prose Contributors

Fiction
Michael Czyzniejewski, Nephophobia [link]
M.O. Walsh, Crate Full of Kitty
Matthew Simmons, The In-Between
Sarah Blackman, Mapping the Moments Between [excerpt]
John Verbos, Exercise 49
J.G. Brister, If You’re Reading This, I’m Dead [link]

Issue Two Prose Contributors

Fiction
Chris Bachelder, Blue Knights Bounced from CVD Tourney [excerpt]
Kurtis Davidson, Signs of Life
Dave Housley, On Sunday Will Be Clown (2nd Place, BCR Fiction Award) [excerpt]
Julia Ridley Smith, The Ugly Cousin (3rd Place, BCR Fiction Award)
Alika Tanaka, S (1st Place, BCR Fiction Award) [excerpt]

Nonfiction
Traci Burns, Feet [excerpt]

Humor
Tom Greenwood, Yankee Crapper [yankeecrapper.com]

Issue One Prose Contributors

Fiction
Adam Berlin, Speeding Away [.PDF]
Cory Doctorow, excerpt from Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town [.PDF]
Alix Ohlin, Local News  
Michael Parker, Results for Novice Males

Nonfiction
Stephen Kuusisto, Alfred Whitehead Is Alive and Well in Corpus Christi, Texas

Prose Submission Guidelines

For every issue of the BCR, we reserve about 50% of the pages for fiction and nonfiction. We like to have a mix of established writers and new, emerging voices.

If you are thinking of submitting, it's always a good idea to take a look around our site, read the blog or a sample issue, and get a feel for work that would be appropriate to our journal. While you're at it, consider entering our first contest. For a small fee of $10 you get a free one-year subscription(regular price? $10!) and a chance at the $250 top prize.

General Guidelines: Address all manuscripts to proper editor (by genre) and to the address below. Include a self addressed, 37-cent stamped, #10 envelope (SASE) for response. No reply will be given via email or postcard. Send only recyclable copies of your manuscript, as we are not responsible for the safe return of originals and discard all unused submissions.

Fiction Editor
Backwards City Review
PO Box 41317
Greensboro, NC 27404

Cover Letter: All submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter that somehow includes the author's name, titles of all pieces submitted, and a brief biographical statement.

Prose: We accept fiction and creative nonfiction with word counts anywhere between 100 and 10,000 words. All work should be double-spaced using a twelve-point font on one side of 8.5" by 11" paper. Do not send us the only copy of your work; we cannot be responsible for its safety or return. Make sure your name and the page number appears on each page. If submitting a novel excerpt, please make sure it can stand firmly on its own. With regards to styles, themes, and genres, anything goes in the Backwards City, as long as it's well-written, evocative, narratively photogenic, and overlaps somehow with our mission statement. Please submit only one story, or up to three short shorts, per reading period.

Full submission guidelines, all genres.