The Brooklyn Rail is a respected print and online publication. Each issue features a small selection of poetry and solicited fiction, as well as a much larger selection of critical articles and contemplations about arts and culture. They cover a wide range of topics: music, theater, dance, film, art, literature, architecture, and more. You can read The Brooklyn Rail online to get a sense of what they publish.
The Brooklyn Rail was founded in 2000, and is now published ten times a year. Each sizable issue features writing by around 100 contributors, sometimes more. The Brooklyn Rail also curates art exhibits, reading series, film screenings, and panel discussions in New York, as well as a number of other special projects.
The Brooklyn Rail does not accept unsolicited fiction; however, they do accept unsolicited poetry submissions in June and December each year. There are no guidelines given for length or number of poems accepted.
They also accept pitches for the other sections of the journal, such as reviews of books, music, theater, film, etc.
The Brooklyn Rail does not have an Editor-in-Chief; instead, each section of the journal has an independent editor. Submissions should be emailed to the editor of the appropriate section of the journal. For example, poets may send submissions via email directly to the poetry editor. They do not accept submissions by mail. Due to the volume of submissions they receive, they do not respond to all of them.
The Brooklyn Rail only accepts submissions that follow the guidelines they’ve posted online. Please read these guidelines in full before submitting.
If you would like to learn more or submit to The Brooklyn Rail, please visit their website here.
Bio: Ella Peary is the pen name of an internationally published author and editor. After earning a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, she lived as a monastic for five years. She now lives as a lay monastic, and teaches poetry, flash fiction, and literary publishing at the Authors Publish Writers Workshop. Her writing has been published in Room, The Apple Valley Review, Fourteen Hills, and elsewhere. And a number of full-length manuscripts she’s edited have received major international awards, including The Best Graphic Novel of the Year (Comics Finlandia), The Montaigne Medal, and The National Indie Excellence Awards. She’s also a long-time literary journal reviewer and editor at Authors Publish Magazine.
