Though we’re generally less fond of travel writing, we want to be taken somewhere, with ambience and texture and resonance. We want to see you exploring and questioning through your work, so that readers can experience the journey alongside you. We enjoy work that celebrates the genre’s complexity by pairing compelling content with innovative structure. We are looking for experimental essays that explore personal experiences, that engage the reader on both an affective and intellectual level.
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We also have a special interest in flash fiction, and brief series of flash pieces While we do occasionally publish longer pieces, we prefer our stories to come in at around 3,000 words. Please check out what we’ve published in the past current and back issues are available for free, right here, on the internet. Novel excerpts are fine as long as they’re self-contained: if it needs a summary to make sense, it’s not for us. We enjoy stories with or without plots, but, either way, we’re looking for complete fictions, ones with an arc, an atmosphere, a heart, preferably with blood. While we tend to gravitate toward the weirder side of things, our aesthetic is always in flux and this dynamism is exciting to us. We publish fiction of wildly different styles and modes. Embrace the radical, the political, the bizarre, but do so with purpose. Stricter forms are fine, but we tend to prefer them corrupted. We would like you to challenge traditional notions of lyricism, or avoid the lyric altogether. All submissions must be sent using Submittable. Please read the editor statements below for a sense of our aesthetics, our mission statement, and, of course, check out our back issues, available online. New Delta Review publishes a wide range of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, book reviews, interviews, and artwork.