NOTE: 21 Stars Review will not be reading poetry submissions until March of 2008 due to a large backlog of unread submissions.

21 Stars Review is an electronic journal of poetry and prose from new and established writers, with a focus on new writers.

We strive to publish work of the highest quality. How this looks in practice, of course, depends entirely on the biases, tastes, and other quirks of the editors. We have a strong leaning toward work that uses constraints, innovative meter and form, or carefully executed collage/cut-up techniques. Prose with amazing sentences will be preferred over prose with unamazing sentences. Plotless or intricately- plotted very short fiction (ideally under 1000 words) is also something we enjoy.

Of course, it's quite easy to write work that uses constraints, meter, carefully executed collage/cut-up techniques, prose with amazing sentences, or plotless or intricately-plotted very short fiction. The hard part is making it compelling—something a reader will want to read again and again. In other words, please send us work we'll want to archive forever.

If you have a particular affinity for or interest in John Ashbery, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Emily Dickinson, Annie Finch, Barbara Guest, Sadeq Hedayat, Amy Hempel, Paul Hoover, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Franz Kafka, Jackson MacLow, Harry Mathews, Lorine Niedecker, Flann O'Brien, Frank O'Hara, Georges Perec, Raymond Roussel, Gilbert Sorrentino, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, Arthur Sze, or Diane Williams, we would especially like to read your work.

21 Stars Review acquires first electronic rights; therefore, please do not send work that has appeared previously in any other electronic journal. We will consider reprints from print journals. We reserve the right to reprint any work in future 21 Stars Review anthologies. At this time, our publishing schedule will largely depend on how many suitable submissions we receive. We read in December, March, June, and September, but you can send your work at any time.

Simultaneous submissions are encouraged, as what's not right for us may be right for someone else; we don't want to be responsible for impeding the process for you. Just let us know if you get good news from somebody else.

For poetry submissions, send 5 to 6 poems either in the text of your e-mail or in a single Word file, to poetry21stars at gmail dot com. Send all prose to prose21stars at gmail dot com. If you don't know whether it's prose or poetry, that's OK—send it to either address.