Voices will continue to be printed annually, but now we have an online journal which will be more vibrant and active. 1922 Review accepts unsolicited and previously unpublished writing from anyone writing in English. 1922 Review also accepts artwork from anyone in the world. Simultaneous submissions are encouraged and accepted, but please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
All work must be previously unpublished.
Prose: Fiction & Creative Nonfiction-
One short story or essay with a word count up to 2500 words
Flash Fiction & Flash Creative Nonfiction:
Up to three Flash pieces—750-word limit for each— in a single Word document with a total word count not to exceed 2000 words
All work must be previously unpublished.
Up to three poems, none exceeding fifty lines, all in a single Word document.
Submit up to three pieces of artwork that adhere to the following guidelines:
- Submissions should be in .jpg format, professionally shot, cropped, and color corrected
- Submissions should be in print quality resolution (300) at no less than 4x6 inches
- Indicate the work's title in the file name
- Include medium and dimensions (in inches) of each piece in your cover letter.
General guidelines
Length: Approximately 300-500 words
Works being reviewed should be less than two years removed from publication/distribution (i.e. nothing from before spring 2022).
1. Format s bibliographic heading depending on the medium:
Book:
DeKoven, Marianne. Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the Emergence of the Postmodern. Durham: Duke UP, 2004. 363 pages. $23.95 paper. ISBN 9-8233-3269-8.
Film:
Speed Racer. Directed by Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski, performances by Emile Hirsch, Nicholas Elia, Susan Sarandon, Ariel Winter, and John Goodman, Warner Brothers, 2008.
2. Please keep to the word limit or expect revision to your review.
3. Include a brief summary of the scope, purpose, and content of the book/film. Also include an evaluation of the author’s/director's success in achieving the purpose, his/her/their use of available resources, and the organization and presentation of the material. Use inclusive language. Reviews should generally be one part introduction to the author, the topic, and the method; one part analysis and evaluation; and one part discussion of the book’s/film's contribution to culture.
5. Evaluation may, of course, be favorable or unfavorable; but the review should in all cases avoid personalities and should express criticism with civility.
6. Please avoid irrelevant digressions.
7. Don’t list typographical or other minor errors unless they significantly impair the value of the work.
8. Include page numbers or time stamps in parentheses for quotations, formatted like this: (p. 232).
9. At the end of the review, type your name flush left in all caps. Directly beneath your name, type your institutional affiliation flush left. (If you have no institutional affiliation, type “Independent scholar” and location.)