The McNeese Review Issue 61 (2024) is available for purchase! Back issues, as well as 2-Year, 3-Year, & 5-Year Subscriptions, are also available.
In all genres, we are particularly interested in seeing work from women, people of color, LGBTQ writers, non-binary writers, people with disabilities, and other underrepresented groups.
Submitting to The McNeese Review
Submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for Volume 63 (2026) of The McNeese Review are welcome from June 1st - August 15th, 2025.
Please follow the guidelines for the relevant genre of your work and please submit no more than once per reading period (multiple submissions will not be read unless the editors have specifically requested that the writer submit again). Submit only original work. Let us know if your writing borrows from or quotes another writer.
We encourage simultaneous submissions; however, please use Submittable to withdraw your submission if it is accepted by another publication. If you need to withdraw a single poem or piece of flash fiction or nonfiction but wish to keep other work in your submission under consideration, please use the Note feature on Submittable.
No material published in The McNeese Review may be reprinted or reproduced, in whole or in part, without the permission of the authors. Writers retain all rights to their work. We ask that The McNeese Review be credited with first publication. All print contributors receive one contributor copy and a $50 honorarium. Contributors outside of the U.S. will receive two additional author copies in lieu of the honorarium.
There is a $3 charge for submitting to help offset production costs. We look forward to reading your work!
Submitting to Boudin
August issue guidelines coming soon!
No material published in Boudin may be reprinted or reproduced, in whole or in part, without the permission of the authors. Writers retain all rights to their work. We ask only that Boudin be credited with first publication. Unfortunately, we are not a paying market; contributors to Boudin will receive our thanks and the promise that we’ll promote your work.
We encourage you to simultaneously submit your work while it’s under consideration at Boudin. If your submission is accepted by another publication, please email boudin@mcneese.edu to withdraw your work.
Please only submit original work. Let us know if your writing borrows from or quotes another writer.
Our current issue, #61 (2024) is available for purchase for $15.00.
Back issues of McNeese Review are available for purchase for $8.00.
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