All work must be typed and handed in with a Submission Form. The form may be printed off the website, filled out, and handed in as a hard copy with your typed work, or you may go to the electronic submission page and fill out the form and copy/paste your work into the provided box. This will then be emailed to the literary magazine.
Go to the Submissions page for more information.
The staff of The Normal Review reserves the right to review the submissions and vote on which pieces will be included in the publication. Submitting your work does not guarantee that it will be printed.
The magazine staff will alter work only for grammatical and spelling errors. Any other changes will be proposed to the writers and left to their discretion.
The author/artist retains all copyright to the works submitted. However, the work becomes the property of the literary magazine and may be printed and/or reprinted at the discretion of the staff.
The literary magazine accepts poetry, prose, non-fiction, drama, and other literary genres.
FICTION/NON-FICTION/ESSAYS/DRAMA: One story or a group of related stories limited to seven pages total, double-spaced.
POETRY: Submit a maximum of 3 poems. If submitting more than one poem, the limit is 60 lines per poem. If one long poem, the limit is 150 lines.
For more submission guidelines, click here.
Submissions are collected in the Fall for the Spring edition, and in the Spring for the Fall edition. Work not printed in one semester's publication may be held over for print the next semester. All submitted work must be accompanied by a Submission Form, or it will not be considered for publication.
Submission forms are available here.
Any undergraduate student of Montclair State University who has paid the SGA fee for the year may submit work and be published.
The email address for poetry submissions is tnrpoetry@gmail.com. The email address for prose submissions is tnrprose@gmail.com.You must attach a Submission Form with all work, which may be found on the Submissions Page.
We will email you to let you know after the last meeting of submission review. This will be the meeting immediately after the deadline.
If you are interested in joining the staff, visit our Members page for more information and a link to the Membership form.
Click here.
A member is expected to miss, without justifiable circumstances, no more than 3 meetings per semester. In addition, a member is expected to actively assist in the publication of the magazine in some specific area. Merely showing up to meetings does not make you a member if you do not put forth your best effort. Because the quality of the publication relies on the work put into it, The Normal Review asks for the very best of its staff members.
The meeting dates will be available on the calendar as early on as possible for the upcoming semester.
