Submissions Guidelines

Calls for Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry

1. Do you accept simultaneous submissions?

Does a bear shit in the woods?

2. To whom should I send my submissions?

Three-five poems may be submitted to

poetry@whitewhalereview.com.

One short story or excerpt from a longer work

may be submitted to

fiction@whitewhalereview.com.

One work of nonfiction may be submitted to

nonfiction@whitewhalereview.com

Please send emailed submission according to the following format:

Electronic Submissions

Email subject: WWR [genre] submission:

[your name]

Email body: Include your name, postal

address and phone number.

A biographical summary of not more than 200

words should also be included.

Attachment: File type: All works must be

submitted in a single attachment with the .doc

or .rtf file extensions.

File name: The file name should read: [your

last name]. [genre + whatever else you feel

moved to include].

Submission content: In the document itself,

please include your name and email address on

each page, as well as page numbers. Again,

please include all poems in one attachment.

Email body: Include your name, postal

address and phone number.

3. Does White Whale Review remunerate for my labors?

When we get paid for doing this, so will you.

We’re doing this for the glory, for the great

white whale out there, not for the money, folks.

4. Deadlines? What about deadlines?

We do not believe in these things called

“deadlines.” We support rolling submissions.

5. Is there a word limit for submissions?

Technically, no. Jim likes short and sweet

poems. Randi likes medium height stories. And

Amos likes whatever length you throw at him.

Be verbose. Be succinct. At worst be good,

whatever the length.

6. Is it permissible to submit something that has been published elsewhere?

Emphatically, not. We’re greedy.

7. What is the average response time?

Anywhere on the order of nanoseconds to

glacial cycles.

8. What the hell does that mean?

We try to respond within 4-10 weeks. However,

if we like you a lot – and we mean A LOT – we

have been known to respond on the same day a

submission was received. We have also been

known to contradict ourselves.

9. For how long will my work be published with the White Whale Review?

Your work – if accepted – will appear on the

White Whale Review’s website as long as one of

the three crew members piloting this shipwreck

is still alive to maintain the website.

10. Can I submit via snail mail?

Yes, but why would you want to?

11. Really, can I?

Please submit all snail mail to:

White Whale Review
4219 Botanical Ave.
Apt. 1E
St. Louis, MO 63110

The Hooker Street address has been sadly, so sadly retired.

12. Excuse me, but, did you say Hooker St.?

Why yes, yes we did. We have to pay the bills

somehow.

13. Did you at least steal the street sign?

Do bears shit in the woods?