Hunger Mountain Review

We are open for submissions in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Translation will be on hiatus for our next issue but will reopen for submissions in Fall 2023. Please submit prose of no more than 8,000 words or up to three flash pieces all in one document. Please submit up to five poems all in one document.

Hunger Mountain Review seeks to provide a platform for traditionally silenced voices, to expand representation in literature, and to examine culture with a critical eye. We pursue this mission through the work we both solicit and select from submissions.

We want writing that explores, questions, and challenges. We want writing that remains open. We want work that thinks about what it’s trying to do for others and the world.

Writing submitted to us will be thoroughly and open-heartedly read, and unlike many literary journals we reserve roughly 50% of each issue for unsolicited work.

While a cover letter is not required, feel free to submit one along with your work. If you choose to include one, please tell us whatever we need to know about you and how you identify in order to meet your work on its own terms.

While we have no problem with simultaneous submissions, if your work is accepted elsewhere, we ask that you notify us as soon as possible. For us, this means within 24 hours in most cases. Please withdraw through Submittable, not by sending us an email.

Current students and faculty in the MFA in Writing Program cannot submit to the magazine. Alumnx must wait two years after the date of graduation to submit.

Due to copyright laws, please DO NOT SUBMIT pieces that contain song lyrics. 

Thank you for sharing our pursuit to elevate the best of today’s literature.