our mission
Founded in 2004 as a print journal and published by students and faculty in the creative writing program at SUNY Plattsburgh, with the help of guest editors and readers, Saranac Review has relaunched as an online-exclusive publication. Our production schedule is dependent upon availability of personnel to teach our Editing and Publishing seminar.
Our next full issue will be published in May 2024, and submissions for Issue 19 will open February 10 of that year. Check Submittable for more information. Saranac Review pays $50 to each contributor whose work is selected and featured. (Please note: we only accept submissions via our Submittable platform, and we charge a $3 fee. We do not consider work by current SUNY Plattsburgh students, faculty, or staff.)
We hope to be a good home for your beautiful, exciting, and surprising writing and art. We want to celebrate work by new and emerging writers, especially writers traditionally underrepresented in the publishing industry. Send us work you love, and we’ll feel lucky to consider it.
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Poetry
We're looking for poetry that arrests us with its formal inventiveness, its haunting or playful imagery, its investment in the rhythm of each line and stanza. Send us up to five poems in a single document. We're interested in featuring folios of poetry in addition to individual poems.
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Fiction
We're looking for your thrilling, moving, and memorable fiction. Your riveting plots, your character-driven shorts, your image-driven flash, your language-obsessed micros. We're up for writing that grabs hold of us from the first sentence and expands what short stories can do. (Under 6,000 words, ideally.)
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Creative Nonfiction
We're looking for your honest, moving, and memorable nonfiction. Your lyric essays, your braided essays, your language-driven shorts, your urgent reflections, your image-obsessed micros. We're up for writing that grabs hold of us from the first sentence and expands what nonfiction can do. (Under 6,000 words, ideally.)
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Drama
We love short plays, one acts, riveting scenes, tiny musicals, and all drama that makes characters and their actions and dialogue utterly visual and necessary. Think Annie Baker, Lynn Nottage, and Michael R. Jackson. (We do not publish full-length plays.)