Call for Artwork

The Maine Review is now taking art submissions!
 

Who We Are:

The Maine Review (MeR) is a biannual online literary journal that publishes culturally significant and innovative writing by writers living in Maine, across the country, and around the world. Maine Review Publications is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to making contemporary literature accessible to readers and writers of all incomes.

MeR is committed to fostering an inclusive, creative community, free of discrimination and harassment, for people of all colors, religions, sexes, sexual orientations, gender identities, national origins, ages, abilities, veteran statuses, and educational backgrounds. Our editors and staff readers are passionate about literature and are fervent advocates of excellent writing from unpublished, emerging, and established writers.
 

We are now accepting artwork to represent the cover, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction sections of our digital issues.
 

*Please send only one submission at a time. We do not accept and cannot refund multiple submissions. This includes multiple submissions across different genres.*

*We will not publish work that normalizes hatred of any marginalized group or individual, though submitted work may thoughtfully consider subjects of discrimination.*

General Guidelines: (Failure to meet these guidelines may result in work being automatically declined)

• We accept submissions only through Submittable. Artwork must be previously unpublished in print and online.
• We encourage simultaneous submissions, but please withdraw your submission immediately if it is accepted elsewhere. 
• We encourage submissions from artists of all backgrounds, including but not limited to LGBTQIA+ artists, BIPOC artists, female-identifying artists, unpublished artists, artists with disabilities, and economically marginalized artists.
• Please address cover letters to our Editor and Managing Editor. 
• We ask that contributors whose work we've published wait at least one year before submitting again.
• Please allow us six months before querying.
  
   

Submission and Formatting Guidelines:

• Please send four original, landscape-orientation images for consideration. Accepted images will represent the cover, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction sections of our digital issues, so ideally they should have a more-or-less unified aesthetic. 
• Submission must be in .jpg or .png format. 
• Photography, illustration, and other art forms are welcome. 
• If you have a website or online portfolio, we encourage you to include a link with your bio. 
• High-res versions will be requested if accepted for publication. 

Payment:

Contributors are paid $50 upon publication.