Rolling Submissions
The world of literature holds no boundaries and we at The Bangalore Review are committed to publishing exemplary writing from all over. We publish literary fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, criticism, poetry, art & translations of works from any language to English. If you happen to be in love with life and think that your words can generate a vision, send us a shout – we’ll probably like your work.
The Bangalore Review accepts submissions on a rolling basis. We do not consider work that has appeared elsewhere (including Web sites and personal blogs), or translations that have already been published in English. Simultaneous submissions are welcome but do notify us as soon as your work is accepted elsewhere. Our response time varies from four to six months. If you do not hear from us in six months please feel free to submit elsewhere.
And because we don’t take rejections seriously, we hope that you won’t either. What matters though is sending in your best and most refreshing work, well edited and we’ll get talking. Include a brief biography (no more than 150 words) and a covering note with your submission. Before submitting, we strongly recommend that you read up recent issues to acquaint yourself with the kind of material that has been published previously.
We charge a nominal submission fee of $3 per submission. Submission fees are non-refundable. This fee will help cover submission processing fees, hosting fees and ongoing operational costs.
Copyright for articles, artwork & photographs published in this magazine shall rest with the authors, with first publication rights to The Bangalore Review. As the magazine follows an open access policy, articles or extracts from articles may be used by others, with proper attribution, for academic and non-commercial use. We reserve the right to publish the work in print in case we go for a print edition at a later time.
Authors are required to take, on their own, relevant approvals for any copyright material they may use in their work submitted to The Bangalore Review. The magazine will not be responsible in any way for copyright infringements.
The Bangalore Review seeks submissions of well informed and well articulated essays from a broad range of non-fictional topics including literature, arts, culture, philosophy, design, etc. that attempt to illuminate the subject against a broad perspective in an engaging manner. We are generally not inclined to publishing academic essays/articles.
The ideal essay for The Bangalore Review would be well-thought, well-researched, provocative and personalized, covering a wide spectrum of human interest issues that can engage with and arouse curiosity in both the intelligent general reader and the specialist.
We read all submissions within 180 days, and will contact you if we’re interested in publishing your material. If you have not heard from us within 180 days, you may assume that we may not be able to publish your manuscript.
We are not very particular on word limits. As a guideline, you may consider that the shortest accepted non-fiction work was around 800 words, the longest one was over 5,000 words and the average non-fiction submission we publish is around 1400 words. Exceptional pieces of longer length have also been considered and published as a series running over several months.
We charge a nominal submission fee of $3 per submission. Submission fees are non-refundable. This fee will help cover submission processing fees, hosting fees and ongoing operational costs.