The theme of our Summer 2025 edition is:

FLAW and FAVOR

Submission period: February 1, 2025 - March 31, 2025 

February 1 - 14, 2025: Free submissions (may close early if Submittable's caps are reached)

February 15, 2025 - March 31, 2025: Paid submissions ($3)*

Translation submissions are free throughout the entire period

Guest Editors:

Poetry: Alex M. Frankel & Flower Conroy

Fiction: Mandira Pattnaik

Creative Nonfiction: Noam Dorr

From fairy tales to suspense thrillers, characters are often  identified as favored by nature, the gods, the parents, or flawed in  ways unsightly, unseemly. We all know, though, that sometimes our flaws  are the means by which we find redemption; and outward favor can mask  flaws. It’s a crazy, mixed up world, and we’d not have it any other way.  We want to read about flaws, favors, and turns of fate. Send us your  most secret flaws, your most fabulous favors.

General guidelines:

We welcome your previously unpublished stories, essays, poetry, graphic art, and genres that have no name. (We consider self-published work and work posted on internet venues, personal websites and social media as previously published.)

• Only one submission per reading period, please! Multiple submissions (including submissions to multiple genres) will be automatically disqualified.
• We will consider simultaneous submissions but ask that you retract your work immediately if it is accepted for publication elsewhere.
• If your work appears in our current or previous issue, we kindly ask that you refrain from submitting to our upcoming issue.
• Please include a short bio (50 -100 words) with your submission.
• We welcome unpublished translations of original work, provided the translator has obtained permission from the author. Please include a copy of the original work.
• We welcome work that challenges conventions of form, style, and content.
• We retain first serial rights to work published in The Ilanot Review. At the time of publication, all rights revert back to the author. However, The Ilanot Review retains the right to publish the piece(s) in any subsequent issue or anthology, whether in print or online. Should you decide to republish the piece elsewhere, we kindly ask that you cite The Ilanot Review as a place of previous publication.
• See individual submission categories for specific guidelines. 

* The Ilanot Review is a volunteer operation. Submission fees go towards our web hosting fees and Submittable service fees.