The Rockford Review, a 100-page perfectbound literary arts journal, is published by the Rockford Writers' Guild each winter and summer. The summer issue is devoted to Guild members who are invited to submit any one piece of their choice that meets the length requirements.

We look for experimental or traditional poetry of up to 50 lines. Shorter is better for our needs. We welcome short fiction, essays, satire, one-acts and other dramatic forms. Prose must be 1300 words or fewer. Please send poetry separate from prose to ensure a more prompt response. We also need cover art black and white illustrations, art or photos in a vertical format. In all cases, we look for work that reflects real-life situations, explores our common human condition, and appeals to a general readership. If we don't understand it, we probably won't print it.

Please send up to three typed pieces at a time of your work. Do not send more until you have heard from us. All submissions must be previously unpublished, including online. If it is on your Web page, it is published! We will consider simultaneous submissions, but we must be informed immediately if your work is accepted somewhere else first. We are sorry we cannot take electronic submissions.

We like a cover letter containing your name, address, phone number, e-mail address if available, and a three-line bio. Always send a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) with enough postage to carry your work back home. If it takes fifty-five cents to get here, it will take more than thirty-seven cents to go home! Do not put our address in the return address corner. Put your name on every sheet you send.

We read year-round and try to get back to you in eight to ten weeks. There is no reading fee.

If your work is accepted, you will receive a complimentary copy of the issue in which you appear. Also, your work will be considered for the $25 editor's choice prize for either prose or poetry.

Good luck and good writing!

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