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Harbor Review publishes two digital issues a year. We accept original, previously unpublished submissions of poetry and visual art. We place poems in conversation with visual art. This process can take some time. We try to respond to every submission in six months. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please notify us immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere so we can remove it from consideration.
All submissions should be submitted through our Submittable page, here.
We also run three micro chapbook competitions each year.
Details for all submissions can be found below.
We are always reading reviews and providing poetry critiques. See details below.
All honorarium payments to contributors and prize winners will be paid through PayPal. Sorry, no exceptions.
Click on one of the links below for chapbook competition information
All manuscripts should include exactly 10 poems, no more no less. Manuscripts over 10 poems will not be read for Harbor Review chapbook competitions.
Closed: The Washburn Chapbook Prize, $200, and Publication at Harbor Review
Closed: The Editor’s Chapbook Prize, $200, and Publication at Harbor Review
POETRY AND ART SUBMISSIONS (open)
We are accepting submissions for our upcoming themed #17 issue February 1 to April 30, 2026.
THEME: Savagery
DESCRIPTION: This summer marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a document that describes Indigenous peoples as “merciless Indian savages.” That phrase still echoes as a reminder of how language can wound, distort, and justify violence, and how the label savage has long been used to mark peoples, cultures, and lands as less than human.
For this issue, we invite you to enter the word savagery from any direction it calls to you. It might mean exploring the word as it has been used politically. Savagery might mean brutality, survival, or the flux and flex power. It might point to what is wild, untamed, instinctive, feral, lush, or ungovernable. It could live in the natural world, in desire, in grief, in joy too large to be polite. It might name what society tries to civilize out of us, or what refuses containment in bodies, landscapes, histories, or hearts. We welcome work that questions who or what gets called savage, who does the naming, and what happens when the word is rejected, reshaped, or reclaimed.
Connections to the Declaration or to Indigenous histories are welcome but not required. We are equally interested in personal, ecological, political, mythic, or metaphorical interpretations. Take us somewhere unruly, take us down desire trails to history, bring us to the now, to the future. Let the word unpetal.
Poetry (open)
In Submittable, send 1-3 poems in one document as a pdf or word document. Include a short bio in your cover letter. Submissions are free. Poems with complex or unusual form/spacing are welcome. However, if accepted, this work may appear different due to the constraints of our online platform.
Harbor Review is a paying market. We pay poets $10 via PayPal per published poem upon release of the issue in which the poem appears.
3 poem Poetry Critiques (Always Open)
We provide critique services to help support Small Harbor Publishing and continue to pay our writers and artists.
The submission fee for a poetry critique is $25. If our reading period is open, all submissions will be considered for publication. Send up to three poems in one document to harboreditions@smallharborpublishing.com. You will receive a response from one of our editors in four weeks. The response will include a 300 word critical response to all poems and line edits for a minimum of 1 poem.
Click here for payment and more details.
10 poem critique
Send up to ten poems in one document to harboreditions@smallharborpublishing.com from the same email you use to pay here. You will receive a response from one of our editors in 2 months. The response will include a letter critique response and line edits for the poems. The submission fee for a poetry critique is $99.
Expedited Submissions (open)
Send 1-3 poems in one document as a pdf or word document during our submission window. Include a short bio in your cover letter.
The submission fee for expedited submissions is $8. Regular submissions are free. You will receive a response in 14 days.
Art (open)
Send 1-3 high resolution images with titles (minimum 2000 pixels on the longest side). Include in your cover letter an image list, short bio, and short artist statement.
Harbor Review is a paying market. We pay artists $10 via PayPal per published piece upon release of the issue in which the piece appears.
Reviews/Interviews (Suspended)
We are currently accepting reviews of poetry chapbooks, full length books of poetry, poetry and art hybrid books, and art books.
Written reviews should be around 300 words. The book being reviewed should be forthcoming or have been published in the last 6 months.
We are particularly interested in reviews of work by women, non-binary folks, people of color, and members of the LGBT community.
Send us something different. Make a video. Write something unusual. Incorporate an interview. Interpretive dance? Yes!
Send your review and cover letter with a short bio to Reviews@smallharborpublishing.com. Please write “Review Submission” in the subject line.
