The Bat City Review seeks the insightful, feisty, sincere, and snarky.

The Bat City Review, edited by graduate creative writing students at the University of Texas, is a nationally distributed annual literary journal that seeks to publish striking and distinctive work.

The Bat City review is quickly becoming recognized as one of the leading periodicals in the country? Of us, NewPages.com says "With work this good, Bat City Review is certainly on the cusp of a wider recognition. While some new magazines are ones to watch Bat City Review is one to subscribe to, immediately and without delay."

Over the past four years we've published nonfiction by the Irish writer Colm Toibin, fiction by Patrick McGrath and Ander Monson, translations of the preeminent Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, as well as poetry by Dean Young, Marilyn Hacker, C.K. Williams, Clay Matthews, and many emerging writers.

We're currently in search of fresh and fascinating fiction and poetry: well-honed writing of all genres and styles.

Email submissions are encouraged, and simultaneous submissions are happily accepted (with the usual request that you let us know if your work is taken elsewhere). We read submissions from May 1 to November 15, and responses are sent primarily in late fall. Work submitted after this reading period will be held for consideration in the next year's publication.

Please visit Bat City Review's website to submit online, or to find out more about us!