NOTE: ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE MADE THROUGH OUR SUBMISSIONS MANAGER AT THE APPLICABLE LINK BELOW TO BE CONSIDERED FOR PUBLICATION IN BLR!
General Comments
$$: Sorry, we are unable offer compensation at this time, only the opportunity to make your great writing available and spread the word about you through the mystery of the Internet for all the world at no cost to our readers.
Rights -- We retain one time rights for electronic publication of your work after which the rights revert back to you, the author.
We can't accept all submissions given the limited space available in our journal, so we may be required to turn down some good pieces. Do not take it personally. Unfortunately, it's part of the process. And this is not a science; there is a lot of subjectivity in the selection process.
Please do not send additional submissions before we have responded to your last submission.
We treat our submitters and contributors in a professional manner and expect the same from writers. Thus, for instance, if you find a typo in your piece after publication, please do not write us and call us derogatory names (yes, this has actually happened); instead, point out the error and we will be happy to correct it. Writers who do not follow such rules may be banned from further consideration in our journal.
Short stories from 100 to 6000 words. We are looking for literary, mainstream, and experimental fiction of all types Give us something fresh, that moves us, that comes from the heart. We are not looking for something that shows you how clever you are, how large your vocabulary is, or writing that is overly sentimental. The writing must be authentic and pure, absent of false notes. No genre fiction or novel excerpts. We prefer work previously unpublished elsewhere, but will consider work previously published at least a year before your submission to Blue Lake Review.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, as long as you promptly notify us of acceptance elsewhere.
If your story is over 3000 words, please limit your submission to one story at a time, until you hear from us regarding that submission. If your stories are under 3000 words, feel free to send as many stories as you have totaling up to 3000 words.
Please include a short third person bio in the submission manager cover letter, as well as the word count for your piece.
Please avoid the excessive use of italics as overuse diminishes the effect of italicized text; and our submission manager has trouble keeping such text at the appropriate font size!
Please wait at least a month after we decline a fiction submission before submitting fiction to us again, unless we have specifically invited you to submit to us again.