General Guidelines

If you'd like to submit artwork, please use this category and submit as many .jpgs as you'd like. Most often we will choose art for our online editions, but select pieces will be eligible to be placed on the covers of our bi-annual issues (published in fall and spring). Images for the online editions may be any size, but images to be considered for the cover of our print issue must meet the following criteria: 

Width: 13.5 in X Height: 8.5 in

We prefer cover art where the figure, scene, or object is set to the right-hand side of the image; this allows us to wrap the emptier left side of the image around the back cover, where we will also print contributor names. Please see examples here: https://newohioreview.org/2025/11/21/cover-art-examples/  We reserve the right to edit the image, in consultation with you, so that it fits our page.

Cover artists will receive $200 and 2 copies of their issue. We may be able to compensate artists for work that will appear online--especially if all parties agree that NOR will highlight several of an artist's images--but payment for art is case-by-case and budget-dependent.

One story per submission. Prose should be typed double-spaced and be no longer than 20 pages. Cross-genre work, or any work that is unusually formatted, is welcome, but please be aware that our page width and font size are restricted. Please include your email address, mailing address, and the piece's genre at the top of your submission.     Please use a file type of .doc or .docx.  

Members may submit up to six times a year, even during non-reading periods. After you submit and pay this time, use "Subscriber/Member Submissions," which is free. 

Members will also receive the next two issues of NOR.

Up to six poems per submission. 

Please use a file type of .doc or .docx. Members may submit up to six times a year, even during non-reading periods. After you submit and pay this time, use "Subscriber/Member Submissions," which is free. 

Members will also receive the next two issues of NOR.

One essay per submission. Prose should be typed double-spaced and be no longer than 20 pages. Cross-genre work, or any work that is unusually formatted, is welcome, but please be aware that our page width and font size are restricted. 

  Please use a file type of .doc or .docx.    

Members may submit up to six times a year, even during non-reading periods. After you submit and pay this time, use "Subscriber/Member Submissions," which is free. 

Members will also receive the next two issues of NOR.

NOR announces our Poets On Screen feature. We encourage essay submissions (750-1500 words) that focus on a particular film and the way it depicts a poet and/or their poetry. These are meant to be general interest articles and don't have to be scholarly.

Essayists might write about, for instance, a Keats biopic like Bright Star; the adolescent poet-character in film; poets/poetry in the work of Richard Linklater or Sofia Coppola or Wes Anderson, etc; poets/poetry in international films or the French New Wave; poets/poetry in animated flicks; an omnibus review of Dr. Seuss adaptations, with the poetry as a central focus; poets and noir; poets and Hallmark; poets and comedy.

Possible questions writers might ask themselves: What particular challenges exist as filmmakers try to translate poems and poets' lives onto the screen? What techniques get used to highlight the poetry? What filmmakers seem to allow the poets/poetry to influence the actual look and feel of the film? How do they do this? 

What creates the special joy involved in a great movie about poets or poetry?

We are open to creative takes on this prompt, including poems about encountering a poetry film.

Prose should be double-spaced and between 750-1500 words.

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Please note that this is a continuation of a feature we ran a few years ago. Here are some sample articles:

• Kept in the Dark: Poetry, Collaboration, and Collapse in Pandaemonium and Tom and Viv, by Matthew VanWinkle
• Jean Cocteau and Orpheus: The Poet as Filmmaker, by Steve Vineberg
• Keep Me In By Keeping Me Out: Poetry On Screen, by Carrie Oeding
• A Personal Affair: The Making of a Poetry Film, by Michele Poulos
• Against Literary Biopics Generally, Unless, Maybe–But Definitely and Especially Against The End of the Tour, by Kathryn Nuernberger
• Beautiful, Brilliant, and Dead: Portraits of the Female Poet in Film, by Danusha Laméris

This portal is for SUBSCRIBERS TO of MEMBERS OF NEW OHIO REVIEW ONLY (unless you have heard specifically from us to use this method of submitting).

Subscribers or members who wish to submit a regular submission in any genre can do so for free (up to six times a year). In your cover letter, please let us know when you subscribed or became a member so we can cross-check our records. 

Please also specify the genre of your piece in the submission title. E.G: "Fiction: Wuthering Heights" or "Poetry: The Waste Land and Four Others."

Please use .doc or .docx file type.

Subscribers/members also have the right to submit during the summer months and during our winter break.

If you'd like to subscribe, check the subscription options at newohioreview.org. And please see our guidelines before you submit as well.

Thank you for your support.

You may submit one story per submission. Prose should be typed, double-spaced, and be no longer than 20 pages.

         Submissions for this contest are concealed. Please exclude your contact information—including name, email address, and mailing address—from your actual submission.

         $750 Prize and publication in New Ohio Review 37 or 38.

         Stories that are not selected will still be considered for publication.

      Entry fee comes with two complimentary issues of NOR (37 and 38).

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 Abigail Rose-Marie is the author of The Moonflowers. She holds a PhD in creative writing from Ohio University and an MFA from Bowling Green State University. She currently lives with her wife and their very spoiled pets in Utah. 

You may submit one essay/memoir per submission. 

    Prose should be typed, double-spaced, and be no longer than 20 pages.   

    Submissions for this contest are concealed. Please exclude your contact information—including name, email address, and mailing address—from your actual submission.

    $750 Prize and publication in New Ohio Review 37 or 38. Pieces that are not selected will still be considered for publication. 

Entry fee comes with two complimentary issues of NOR (37 and 38).
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Patrick Madden is the author of four essay collections, Recenses/Recencies (Nebraska 2026), Disparates (2020), Sublime Physick (2016), and Quotidiana (2010), and coeditor of Fourth Genre: 25 Essays from Our First 25 Years (Michigan State 2025) and After Montaigne (Georgia 2015). He teaches at Brigham Young University and Vermont College of Fine Arts, he coedits the journal Fourth Genre and the 21st Century Essays series at the Ohio State University Press, and he curates the online essay resource www.quotidiana.org. He received his PhD in creative writing from Ohio University a couple of decades ago.

You may submit up to 6 single-spaced pages of poetry per submission entry.  

 
     Submissions for this contest are concealed. Please exclude your contact information—including name, email address, and mailing address—from your actual submission.    

     $750 Prize and publication in New Ohio Review 37 or 38. Pieces that are not selected will still be considered for publication. (Customarily, we publish 30-40 poems that were originally submitted as contest entries.) 

Entry fee comes with two complimentary issues of NOR (37 and 38).
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Brad Aaron Modlin is The Reynolds Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at University of Nebraska, Kearney, teaching undergrads & in the online grad program. His poetry book Everyone at This Party Has Two Names is available from Black Lawrence Press. He writes fiction about dead people more like us than we’d guess. Work has appeared inThe Pushcart Prize, Prairie Schooner, Brevity, Poetry Unbound, The Slowdown, & The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Also orchestral scores, Australian art galleries, Brooklyn public art, & his grampa’s refrigerator. He has received support from Sewanee, Banff, & the Nebraska Arts Council. He often writes about hope or embarrassment because he believes in human goodness & is very clumsy at the gym. He likes reading aloud—his own work or others’—and as a reader is drawn to writing that tickles the ear.