Rivener Literary

Publishing experimental, genre-blurring, and hybrid art. We respond within 48 hours and look forward to receiving your most daring work.

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Poems We Love

THREE POEMS by Sara Elkamel My Father's Accent by Kaveh Akbar OBIT by Victoria Chang

Prose We Love

The White Book by Han Kang Short Talks by Anne Carson Bluets by Maggie Nelson

Hybrids We Love

Dear Salim by Solmaz Sharif Poetics of Limbo by Michelle Phương Hồ A Guidebook, This Pen by Sasha Hom

Guidelines and Nominations

We nominate for the Pushcart prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fiction, and Best Micro-fiction. All published pieces are also considered for our annual "Best of" anthology. Depending on publication volume and themes of published work, select submissions may be included in other Rivener issues and anthologies.

No contests or themed issues are currently open.


We do not accept AI-generated work or work that includes hate speech, gratuitous violence, or erotica.

Simultaneous submissions and previously published works are permitted.

We respond to all submissions within 48 hours.

We are always open for general submissions and publish on a rolling basis. By submitting to Rivener Literary, you acknowledge that your work may be included in our "Best of" yearly anthology.

If your piece has not been previously published, Rivener Literary asks for First Serial Rights upon publication. All rights revert back to the author upon publication. We kindly ask that you credit us as the first place of publication if the piece is later published elsewhere.

We are looking for your most daring work.

Definitions

Riven (middle English): v. to rend or cleave apart
Rive (literary): v. to split or tear apart violently
Rivener (neologism): n. a hint of distance that creeps slowly into a relationship

Editor-in-Chief


Chloe Xu is a poet from Chicagoland whose work has been recognized by YoungArts, National Poetry Quarterly, the National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. When she is not writing poetry, she loves to blog and solve physics problems. She can be found at https://chloexu.carrd.co/.