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The Review Review

About This Journal

The Review Review is an open-access journal supporting writers, editors, students, and teachers by offering reviews of recent issues of literary magazines, interviews with editors of literary magazines, and features on the publishing industry.

Articles published in The Review Review fall into one of three distinct types:

  • Review: a review and assessment of a literary journal. These pieces are between 750 and 1000 words, and undergo peer review.
  • Interview: an interview with an editor of a literary journal or prominent figure in literary publishing. These pieces are between 1500 and 2500 words, and do not undergo peer review.
  • Views on Publishing feature articles: an examination of an issue relevant to literary publishing and readers of The Review Review. These features are between 1000 and 3000 words and undergo peer review.

    • For more information on the different types of submissions accepted, see The Review Review's complete styleguide.

    History of The Review Review

    Founding Editor Becky Tuch launched The Review Review in the spring of 2008. Trying to get her work published felt as futile and inconsequential as trying to write her name on a snowflake. She felt that there was something unsettling about the entire process. What she found when talking with peers was that everyone wanted to be published in literary magazines, but no one knew who published what, who edited which magazines, which ones were printed from universities and which were independent, or at the very least which magazines they liked and which they didn't.

    At first, this discovery was comforting. Becky was not alone. With over 2,000 print and online journals, it can be hard to know where to begin. So she decided to create a resource where writers can get a deeper sense of the journals by reading reviews of the latest issues. Through speaking to more editors, she also learned how challenging this process is for them. Magazine staffs are small and so are budgets. Through interviews, editors can also have an opportunity to talk a little about their journals. Thus, Becky hoped, the entire process can feel less like community service and more like an actual community.

    Jeffrey Dodd took over as Editor in late 2019, bringing The Review Review to Gonzaga University as a teaching journal for students in the English Department.

    In 2024 The Review Review ceased publication.

    Abstracts and Indexes

    Indexed in Crossref, ROAD, Fatcat and and OpenAlex.