Welcome to The Nomad Review

The NOMAD Review considers and curates fresh voices in arts and literature, especially by emerging creators. We read during June & July.  

**Please note that our submission period closed at midnight on Friday, August 1 of 2025 and will not reopen until our next reading period (June & July of 2026). Any submissions  received during our non-reading period (August-June) will not be read, but don't worry: we will open another contest and reading period next summer.

Categories:

1. Fiction, Personal Essay & Poetry: For general prose and poetry submissions, please note that while we welcome writing of any length, we are more likely to publish pieces under 5,000 words. Please limit your submissions to one per reading cycle (for poems: a batch of five).

2. Process Features: We also seek innovative voices to discuss or demonstrate tools to help creatives grow their personal goals and careers.  Emerging and working creatives regularly face challenges in time, funding, work value, work-life balance, and more. We're looking to publish articles that address these concerns from personal experience or collective wisdom. 

3. Critiques, Reviews & Examinations: for works of an analytical nature, we’re looking for observers to share their understandings about creative works/bodies of work, practices or locations of creation/display, and more. While the focus is not limited to emerging creatives, projects, and businesses, we especially love attention paid to creative newcomers.

4. Visual Art: please limit submissions to 5 pieces per reading cycle, prepared in .jpg or .png format. The resolution for images should be greater than 70 dpi. Please include your artist statement in the cover letter area, linking your submission to themes of the magazine.

General Submission Guidelines:

• We will be reading submissions again from June 1-August 1, 2026. During that window, please email submissions directly to:  info@nomadreview.org
• Prizes and themes will change each year. Please check back here during our reading period for updates.
• We cannot accept paper submissions at this time.
• While we welcome writing submissions of any length, we are more likely to publish prose under 5,000 words. 
• Please prepare writing submissions in one letter-sized document, using a standard typeface (e.g., Times, Helvetica, Arial) and font size (12 point). All files must be uploaded in PDF or Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) formats. Please do not include your name anywhere on your manuscript (rather, include it in the cover letter). Please DO include page numbers.
• For visual art: please limit submissions to 5 pieces per reading cycle, and prepare your files in .jpg or .png formats. The resolution for images should be greater than 70 dpi.
• We reserve the right to pair accepted visual works alongside written pieces or other artworks, and curate multiple works into groups. 
• We are open to simultaneous submissions, but please email us to let us know as soon as your work is accepted elsewhere.
• We may occasionally republish previously published work, as long as this does not conflict with previous contracts. However, you must indicate previously published work when you submit.
• Responses will be provided as promptly as we, with a small staff, are able to provide them. Please do not email us about the status of your work until at least six months after submission.
• Although NOMADartx Review does not request exclusive rights to accepted work, we do request the right to preserve your work online in our archives for the lifespan of the magazine. If the work we publish is later republished, we request that you note its initial publication in The Nomad Review.
• The Nomad Review is currently an all-volunteer publication and we're unable to provide feedback on submissions at this time. However, we are passionate about promoting great art, and will submit contributor work for appropriate literary and art prizes.