Many thanks to everyone who has supported The Gateway Review over the years through reading and submitting. We’re going on what will hopefully be a temporary hiatus for the time being as we consider some restructuring of the journal. We hope to be back soon, and look forward to sharing more great surrealist work when we are.

Students in a publishing course that Gateway Review co-sponsors are seeking submissions to their projects! See our Submittable page for info!

Our sibling press GATEWAY LITERARY PRESS is now taking pre-orders for their newest title, the novella SIDEWINDER by Marcella Haddad! Releases on July 15.

Our pals at Gateway Literary Press are currently accepting submissions to TEN free-to-submit-to calls for students in their publishing practicum to review for their anthology projects. While most can be submitted to via email, you can also submit to any and all of them, for free, through our Submittable page!

Our 2023 edition of The Gateway Review is now available for purchase!

We’re open for submissions for our annual issue. Additionally, congratulations to the finalists in the novella contest sponsored by Gateway Literary Press!

Our pals at Gateway Literary Press are running a novella contest this summer! Here are the details:

Gateway Literary Press & The Gateway Review: A Journal of Magic Realism are proud to co-sponsor our first fabulist/surrealist novella contest!

Writers of any demographic or experience are invited to submit a novella of between 40-80 pages (approximately 10,000-20,000 words, though there’s certainly wiggle room there).  We will only consider work that falls within the surrealist/fabulist/magic realist tradition.  Please be aware we are not interested in high fantasy or science fiction.

Up to 100 submissions will be considered for this contest, starting on May 1 and concluding on June 30.  After that date, or after 100 entries have been received, submissions will close.  We hope to announce finalists by the end of July and the winner by mid-August.  Editor-in-chief and president of press operations Joe Baumann will select the winner.

The winning novella will be published in mid-2023.  The writer will receive a $200 prize and twenty copies of their novella, plus a standard contract for royalties.  Up to four other finalists may be selected for publication.  An excerpt from the winning novella will be published in the 2023 edition of The Gateway Review: A Journal of Magic Realism.

We have no formatting preferences for manuscripts, though projects with significantly unusual formatting may prove challenging for publication.  All we ask is that entries be double-spaced.  If the novella utilizes chapters, please start each chapter on a fresh page.  Please number all pages.

You can enter from the press submissions page.

Check out our newest issue for purchase today!

The inaugural offerings from Gateway Literary Press are now available for pre-order! Check out Aaron Tillman’s Consolation Miracles and Tom Weller’s And There Came Forth a Great Fish!

Right now and until the release date of January 31, copies can be purchased at a 20% reduced price!

We’re excited to share the covers of the inaugural offerings from our sister organization, Gateway Literary Press–these fine short story collections will be available in early 2022!