Call For Submissions
The Columbus Review is now accepting submissions! This will be our inagural issue.
The Columbus Review is a new nonprofit experimental literary magazine and publisher based in Columbus, Ohio. We publish raw, weird, boundary-pushing poetry, prose, scripts, and satire that doesn’t fit in traditional outlets. Our focus is literary alchemy — mixing messy, contradictory human experiences into strange, urgent, and timeless work inspired by early cinema, Dada, and surrealism.
Our focus is innovative, experimental work including poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, one-act plays, short screenplays, and absurdist/satire. We especially love hybrid forms, flash pieces, grotesque humor, prototypes, inversions of form, and anything that feels urgent, playful, over-the-line, or unexpectedly brilliant. We want writing that makes the everyday feel strange or uncanny.
The Columbus Review is a new nonprofit experimental literary magazine and publisher based in Columbus, Ohio. We publish raw, weird, boundary-pushing poetry, prose, scripts, and satire that doesn’t fit in traditional outlets. Our focus is literary alchemy — mixing messy, contradictory human experiences into strange, urgent, and timeless work inspired by early cinema, Dada, and surrealism.
Our focus is innovative, experimental work including poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, one-act plays, short screenplays, and absurdist/satire. We especially love hybrid forms, flash pieces, grotesque humor, prototypes, inversions of form, and anything that feels urgent, playful, over-the-line, or unexpectedly brilliant. We want writing that makes the everyday feel strange or uncanny.
Our reading period for Issue 01, the Winter issue, ends Novemeber 1st.
No reading fee!
No reading fee!
Good luck and Excelsior!
Submission Period
August 1, 2026 - November 1, 2026
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