Submission Guidelines

Tiger Leaping Review welcomes all writers and hopes to promote emerging and underrepresented voices.

Because of this, submission is free! However, we are currently unable to be a paying market. 

There will be three reading periods per year.

The submission periods will be January 1st-March 31st, May 1st-July 31st, and September 1st-December 1st.

Issues will be published on April 30th, August 31st, and December 31st.

We know that waiting for a response can be terrifying, so we'll try to get back to you within one to two weeks of the submission period closing. Submissions are not accepted on a rolling basis, so if you are still waiting for a reply by then, feel free to inquire.

Editors will provide feedback upon request.

Please let us know in your cover letter if you want feedback on your work. Keep in mind that we provide feedback after going through submissions as the feedback process is time-consuming, so you may receive your requested feedback after we let you know the status of your submission. Feedback may take up until the end of the next reading period to fully process.

We accept poetry and fiction prose. Each submission may contain up to five poems or two short stories/flash fiction; the maximum page length is ten, and the word limit for fiction prose is 2000.

We will only accept one submission per genre per person each reading period. We will only read your most recent submission if you send more than one, but please try to limit it to one. Additionally, if you put more than the allotted number of pieces or pages we accept, we will only consider the ones that fill up to the maximum. 

Please use a readable font such as Times New Roman or EB Garamond and single or 1.15 spacing. Submit a short third-person bio, an optional cover letter, and all your work titles in the body of the email submission. In a single Word/Google document (.docx) or PDF send your work (all writing). Email your submission to tigerleapingreview@gmail.com. 

Your email's subject line should be "[the genre you're submitting in] SUBMISSION."

If it is not written this way, we will likely miss your email and will not be able to look at your piece(s).

Please only submit original, authentic work. We do not accept work generated by AI. We welcome work dealing with challenging subjects but ask you to include trigger warnings. We will not tolerate any hateful writing. If your writing contains hateful or offensive themes, we reserve the right to not respond and to block you.

We will accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know immediately if your work gets accepted elsewhere by replying to your original submission email. Congratulations in advance! We also seldom accept previously published work, so please include where it was previously published with the title of the piece. Unpublished work is preferred.

Tiger Leaping Review reserves your piece's first electronic serial rights upon publication.

After publication, all rights revert to the author. If your work gets published later, please acknowledge Tiger Leaping Review as the first place of publication. We may nominate you for the Pushcart Prize and Best of Net, so be sure to send your best work!

If your work is accepted for an issue, please wait at least two reading periods before submitting it again. We appreciate your shared enthusiasm for writing but would like to give everyone a fair opportunity!

If we notify you that your work is not accepted via email, you may submit the same or different works during the next reading period.

If you have any questions, please inquire through tigerleapinginfo@gmail.com or submit a message through our "Contact" tab.