Open Call for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Deadline: November 28, 2026
Please read all the submission guidelines before sending us your work. We do not offer payment at this time. Note: Please do not submit work more than once per calendar year. We take time and care in reviewing your submissions. If you haven’t heard back from us after three months, feel free to send our editors a note at whitewallreview@torontomu.ca.
We publish short stories and novel excerpts from 250 – 6000 words. We will consider only one piece at a time (unless you are submitting flash fiction, in which case you may submit up to three short pieces). For excerpts of longer, forthcoming works, please make note of the publisher and publication date in your cover note.
We publish personal essays, literary essays, and experimental hybrid forms. We consider essays from 500 – 6000 words. For excerpts of forthcoming works, please make note of the publication date in your cover note.
Please submit up to five poems at a time (totalling no more than eight pages) in one file.
Previous projects:
SUNBURST: WWR Micro-Lit- Submit here
NOTE: This special summer SUNBURST Call For Submissions is exempt from White Wall Review‘s usual rule of maximum of 2 submissions per writer per calendar year. This means you may submit your work regardless of how many times you’ve already submitted to the journal this year, and this submission will also not “count” toward your maximum. You may also submit more than one piece of work for SUNBURST – but each piece will require a separate submission/upload on Submittable (i.e., you may only attach one piece per submission).