The Santa Fe Literary Review (SFLR) is published annually by the Santa Fe Community College. An in-print literary journal, SFLR features work by local, national, and international writers and artists. Our 2024-2025 theme is “Bloodlines: Lineage, Inheritance, and Legacy.” Our submissions period opens July 15 and closes November 1.


This year, the Santa Fe Literary Review's suggested theme is “Bloodlines: Lineage, Inheritance, and Legacy,” to be interpreted literally, metaphorically, or somewhere in between.

Please submit up to five poems of any length for our review.

Our submission period opens on July 15, 2024 and closes on November 1, 2024. We select work for the next year’s issue each November, and notify writers and artists of our decisions by mid-December. If you’ve submitted work and have not heard a reply by January 1, feel free to email sflr(at)sfcc.edu to request an update.

We accept simultaneous submissions, but ask that you kindly withdraw your submission to us through Submittable if it's accepted elsewhere. We do not consider previously published work.

This year, the Santa Fe Literary Review's suggested theme is “Bloodlines: Lineage, Inheritance, and Legacy,” to be interpreted literally, metaphorically, or somewhere in between.

Dramatic writing should not exceed ten double-spaced pages; we encourage submissions of full-length works or standalone scenes. Please format your submission for twelve-point font or similar, to ensure legibility. 

Our submission period opens on July 15, 2024 and closes on November 1, 2024. We select work for the next year’s issue each November, and notify writers and artists of our decisions by mid-December. If you’ve submitted work and have not heard a reply by January 1, feel free to email sflr(at)sfcc.edu to request an update.

We accept simultaneous submissions, but ask that you kindly withdraw your submission to us through Submittable if it's accepted elsewhere. We do not consider previously published work.

This year, the Santa Fe Literary Review's suggested theme is “Bloodlines: Lineage, Inheritance, and Legacy,” to be interpreted literally, metaphorically, or somewhere in between.

Word limit per prose submission to SFLR is 2000 words per submission period. Please format your submission for twelve-point font or similar, to ensure legibility.

Our submission period opens on July 15, 2024 and closes on November 1, 2024. We select work for the next year’s issue each November, and notify writers and artists of our decisions by mid-December. If you’ve submitted work and have not heard a reply by January 1, feel free to email sflr(at)sfcc.edu to request an update.

We accept simultaneous submissions, but ask that you kindly withdraw your submission to us through Submittable if it's accepted elsewhere. We do not consider previously published work.

SFLR invites submissions of visual art submissions, including but not limited to graphic novel excerpts, photographs, visual photography, digital media, and photographs of produced art from any media. Kindly submit visual art submissions in .jpg or .tif formats, at 300 dpi.

In your cover letter, please include the title of your submission(s), the estimated dimensions, and your full name and contact information. You're welcome to insert a brief biographical statement (optional). Aside from our cover, we’re only able to print in black and white. As such, we ask that artists submit works in black and white, or else ensure their works will reproduce well in black and white before submitting.

Our suggested theme this year is "Bloodlines: Lineage, Inheritance, and Legacy," to be interpreted literally, metaphorically, or somewhere in between.

This year, the Santa Fe Literary Review's suggested theme is “Bloodlines: Lineage, Inheritance, and Legacy,” to be interpreted literally, metaphorically, or somewhere in between.

Word limit per prose submission to SFLR is 2000 words per submission period. Please format your submission for twelve-point font or similar, to ensure legibility.

Our submission period opens on July 15, 2024 and closes on November 1, 2024. We select work for the next year’s issue each November, and notify writers and artists of our decisions by mid-December. If you’ve submitted work and have not heard a reply by January 1, feel free to email sflr(at)sfcc.edu to request an update.

We accept simultaneous submissions, but ask that you kindly withdraw your submission to us through Submittable if it's accepted elsewhere. We do not consider previously published work.

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