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The Fourth River

Chatham University

Woodland Road

Pittsburgh, PA 15232

E-mail: fourthriver@chatham.edu

Web: fourthriver.chatham.edu

Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: 8/1-2/15 Response time: 3-5 months Payment: copies Contests: yes (see website) ISSN: 1559-310X Founded: 2004 Issues per year: 1 Average pages: 250 Copy price: $10 Sample price (postpaid): $10 Subscription 1 year: $10

Publisher’s description: The Fourth River publishes creative nonfiction, short fiction, poetry and young adult/children’s writing submissions that capture the places—natural, built and imagined, urban, rural or wild—where humans and nature converge and collide.

We look for writings that are richly situated at the confluence of place, space and identity, or that reflect upon or make use of landscape and place in new ways. Nature and environmental writing that is edgy and provocative, that goes beyond traditional nature writing, and contributes to a new type of place-based writing has the best chance of finding a home in our journal.

We accept submissions of up to seven poems or up to 7,000 words of prose. Please check our website for complete submission guidelines and information about contests and special theme issues.