Bat City Review is published annually. Please submit your work via our online submissions manager. You can access the submissions manager by clicking here. We accept and read submissions from June 1 to November 15, with responses sent primarily in late autumn.

Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. Unless additional work is requested, please submit only once per genre per reading period.

Contributors receive a copy of the issue in which their work appears as compensation. Individual rights revert to authors upon publication. Before submitting, you may want to familiarize yourself with an issue of Bat City Review.

FICTION

The editors at Bat City Review hope to be consistently surprised by the writers who submit to us. A team of readers and a large editorial board evaluate each story, which means we do not have a particular aesthetic other than quality.

It is easier for us to publish works of 25 or fewer pages, but we are not opposed to publishing longer works as long as the writing sings. If you send us a novel excerpt it must be self-contained. If you have a novella, please query us before sending it. We are especially interested in flash fiction and short short stories; you may send up to three of these as one submission.

For questions and queries, feel free to contact us at fiction[at]batcityreview[dot]com.