General Submissions Guidelines:

$3 General Fiction submissions, for consideration for our Spring issue, are accepted July 15 - September 30 and December 1 - April 15. 

The Breakwater Review Fiction contest will be open for submissions October 1 - December 1.

General Poetry submissions, for consideration for our Winter issue, are accepted July 15 - December 1. 

The Peseroff Poetry Contest will be open for submissions February 15 - April 15. 

Visual Art and Creative Nonfiction Submissions are accepted year-round.

Breakwater Review only accepts previously unpublished work and is glad to review simultaneous submissions, but please inform us if your writing is accepted elsewhere. 

We publish ONLINE two times per year, in the Spring and Fall.

**NEW: If a contest is taking place during a particular submission period, we will be limiting the number of incoming submissions for the general submission form of that genre. For instance, while the Breakwater Fiction Contest is open, the General Fiction form will have a limited capacity of acceptances; the General Poetry form will have a limited capacity when the Peseroff Poetry Prize is open, and so on.

Submissions sent via e-mail will not be accepted

Breakwater Review is also seeking VISUAL ART. 

We prefer illustrations and paintings to photography, although we'll consider the latter if the work strikes us with potential for the issue's cover. We are looking for great cover art (and supplemental work) that will be featured as the look of the issue. Read our visual art guidelines in the submission form below.