our mission


Founded in 2004 as a print journal and published by students and faculty in the creative writing program at SUNY Plattsburgh, with the help of guest editors and readers, Saranac Review has relaunched as an online-exclusive publication. Our production schedule is dependent upon availability of personnel to teach our Editing and Publishing seminar.

We only accept submissions through Submittable during our reading periods. Please do not email us your work. We accept simultaneous submissions and ask that you notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. Saranac Review will open again for Submissions for Issue 21 on in September 2025. Check Submittable for more information.

Saranac Review pays $60 to each contributor whose work is selected and featured. (Please note: we charge a $3 fee to help keep our publication afloat. We do not consider work by current SUNY Plattsburgh students, faculty, or staff.)

We hope to be a good home for your beautiful, exciting, and surprising writing and art. We want to celebrate work by new and emerging writers, especially writers traditionally underrepresented in the publishing industry. Send us work you love, and we’ll feel lucky to consider it.

  • Poetry

    We're looking for poetry that arrests us with its formal inventiveness, its haunting or playful imagery, its investment in the rhythm of each line and stanza. Send us up to five poems in a single document. We're interested in featuring folios of poetry in addition to individual poems.

  • Fiction

    We're looking for your thrilling, moving, and memorable fiction. Your riveting plots, your character-driven shorts, your image-driven flash, your language-obsessed micros. We're up for writing that grabs hold of us from the first sentence and expands what short stories can do. (Under 6,000 words, ideally.)

  • Creative Nonfiction

    We're looking for your honest, moving, and memorable nonfiction. Your lyric essays, your braided essays, your language-driven shorts, your urgent reflections, your image-obsessed micros. We're up for writing that grabs hold of us from the first sentence and expands what nonfiction can do. (Under 6,000 words, ideally.)

  • Drama

    We love short plays, one acts, riveting scenes, tiny musicals, and all drama that makes characters and their actions and dialogue utterly visual and necessary. Think Annie Baker, Lynn Nottage, and Michael R. Jackson. (We do not publish full-length plays.)

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