Good Life Review

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We nominate for Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best New Poets, Best Small Fictions, PENN Awards, AND pay $60 per piece of writing for our seasonal issues, $25 for Micro Monday features, and $50 for cover art.  Details on all opportunities and the forms to submit are on Submittable.

We believe that diversity and inclusivity is important in redressing imbalances of representation in literary discourse. As such, we strongly encourage submissions by writers from underrepresented areas of society.

100% of the work we publish is unsolicited and many of the writers are early in their writing and/or publishing journey. Each piece that lands in our queue is handled with care, given serious consideration, and evaluated by at least three people, including both editors and readers, from genre specific editorial teams.

The Basics:

Work must be original and previously uncurated. We gladly accept pieces that have previously only appeared on personal blogs and/or social media. Please reference this thoughtful article by Tim Green on the term curation.  

We pay $60 per piece for writing published in seasonal issues ($75 for two pieces). We pay $25 for pieces appearing in our “Micro Monday” segment and $25 for artwork used on the cover of our seasonal issues. For international submissions, we are only able to send money via PayPal.

There is a $3 fee for submissions for our Spring and Autumn issues which allows us to use Submittable and our web platform. The fee for entry to our annual Honeybee Poetry Prize is $18 which is used to support payment to contributors. Details about the contest can be found here. Info and results from the latest contest are here.

There is currently no fee for submitting art or pieces to be considered for The Buzz ~ Micro Monday feature or for artwork.

We will respond to all submitted work. It may take from one to six months depending on when in the reading period the work is submitted. Artwork may remain open for the duration of a calendar year. Thank you in advance for your patience.

We accept submissions via Submittable. Any received via email or post will not make it into the queue of our editorial teams.

We no longer accept pieces from our University Nebraska Omaha MFA friends via Submittable. If interested, please send correspondence directly to managing editor, Tacheny, at tacheny.perry@thegoodlifereview.com.

If you have an issue with the fee because of financial hardship, or difficulties with the submission platform, please send a message to: editors@thegoodlifereview.com.

General Guidelines:

Simultaneous submissions are cool cool. Simply withdraw in Submittable – or – for individual flash pieces or poems, initiate a message in Submittable indicating which title(s) are being withdrawn.

The Good Life Review acquires First North American Serial Rights and the right to maintain an archive copy of work online. All other rights revert to author upon publication with a request that if the work is reprinted, appropriate acknowledgment to The Good Life Review is made.

We do not publish offensive work or pieces which exhibit hatred directed toward a particular gender, race, ethnicity, ability, sexual identity, socioeconomic class, or disability. In other words – if you are an asshole, we don’t want your writing or your money.

If there are content warnings, please include those in the submitted document(s) preceding the piece(s).

We prefer to read blind so please remove your name from the submitted document.

Your submission will not be disqualified if it was submitted incorrectly. If we have a question or concern about your submission, we will contact you. Please know that we are on your side. Thank you for trusting us with your work.

Again, work must be original and absolutely fabulous! We want your very best!!

Genre specific goodies are below.