What We Look For

We are looking for prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, hybrid works, and dramatic works from emerging and established writers from around the world, particularly writers from historically underrepresented communities. We love the concept of narrative - we want to read storytellers telling stories in whatever form that takes for you. 

Works should be primarily in English. 

We consider simultaneous submissions but if a work is accepted elsewhere please let us know. We will be thrilled for you! We consider reprints but please indicate the original publication so that it can be credited - with a link to the work if possible so that we can also link to that publication. 

We love visual art submissions and are always looking for cover art.

We will not consider AI generated work.  At this time we are also not considering translations. 

How to Submit

For art, please submit one piece that you would like considered for as cover art. 

For poetry and flash or micro-fiction, please submit up to five (5) pieces of up to 100 lines for poetry. We consider micro-fiction to be up to 350 words, and flash to be 351 - 1000 words.    

For longer works of fiction, non-fiction, or dramatic works please send up to two (2) pieces of up to 3000 words. 

For dramatic works, we consider works that would be able to produced as a 10 minute play or shorter. We love long dramatic monologues, but will also consider ensemble pieces. 

Send submissions to editorivoreview@gmail.com. The subject line should be the THEME of the issue for which you are submitting work and the CATEGORY of the submission. (Example: LOST - POETRY)  Please include a short cover letter with a short author's bio in the body of the e-mail and attach submissions in a single .docx attachment.

Submissions that do not follow these simple guidelines will not be read.   

Currently we are reading for Issue One: CONNECTIONS until August 31st, 2025 and for Issue Two: LOST until October 31st, 2025.   

Rights and Expectations 

You retain all rights to your work. By submitting work to Ivo Review you are granting us the non-exclusive rights to publish your work in our online issues and to continue the display of that work on the online site. You are confirming that you are the author of the submitted work and that you retain the rights to submit it for publication. Works published online in Ivo Review will be considered for future anthologies, and authors will be contacted for permission and with information about payment if we are interested in using your work again in that way.  We will promote your work, but we will never attempt to sell your work or to include it in any publication other than the issue in which it was originally published without your permission. 

If a piece has not been previously published before Ivo Review, please credit us in any future publications. 

At this time, we are not a paying market - though we do hope to be able to correct that soon. We do have every intention of nominating for Pushcart and other prizes including Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, and Best of the Net.

Our anticipated response time is currently four weeks or less, but we are a very small operation and so cannot promise that it will not take us a bit longer. If you have not heard from us after six weeks, please feel free to contact us for an update. We will not take it personally!