The Iowa Review comes out three times a year (April, August, and December), carrying stories, poems, essays, and reviews. We look for the best writing available and are often pleased to introduce new writers. We also sponsor The Iowa Review Awards, an annual contest in our three main genres.

Unsolicited manuscripts are welcome during the fall semester only—September, October, and November. Unsolicited work that arrives at any other time will be returned unread. Work without a SASE—even if the cover letter includes an e-mail address—will be discarded. We do not consider e-mail submissions.

Entries for The Iowa Review Awards, given in fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction, should arrive during January. Please look for our annual announcements. Reading those entries occupies the remainder of our year. Outside judges name the winners, who receive $1000 apiece and are published, along with a gathering of finalists, in our December issue.

We purchase first North American serial rights, non-exclusive rights for any later Iowa Review generated anthology, non-exclusive classroom copyrights, and non-exclusive electronic rights for our web site, if we choose. We pay $25 dollars for the first page and $15 for each additional page, whether of poetry or prose. Contributors also receive two free copies of the issue in which their work appears and the remainder of a year's subscription.

Sample copies are $9, as are back issues when available. Subscriptions are $25 for one year, $45 for two, and $60 for three. Call our order department at (800) 235-2665 to charge your order to VISA or MasterCard, or send a check to the address below.

The Iowa Review
308 EPB, The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242

Art on this page by Tom Wegman