## Background The Paris Review is a quarterly literary magazine founded in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton, the latter serving as its longtime editor. It was conceived partly as a home for the writers' own fiction and poetry, at a time when the founders felt literary criticism had come to dominate other magazines at the expense of the creative work itself. The magazine moved its base of operations to New York in the 1970s and remains published from there today. The Paris Review is best known for its long-running "Writers at Work" interview series, which has produced in-depth conversations with figures such as Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, Truman Capote, and countless others, and which is widely regarded as one of the most significant archives of literary interviews in existence. Beyond the interviews, the magazine has been an early publisher of writers including Philip Roth, Jack Kerouac, V.S. Naipaul, and Jeffrey Eugenides, and it continues to publish fiction, poetry, essays, and art in each issue. ## Submissions - Prose: accepted via Submittable during open windows in February, June, and October, until capacity is reached. - Poetry: accepted via Submittable during open windows in January, April, July, and October. - Hard-copy submissions of prose and poetry are accepted year-round by mail. - Work must be in English and previously unpublished; translations are welcome if accompanied by the original text. - Prose submissions: 40 pages maximum. Poetry: no more than six poems per submission. - Simultaneous submissions allowed, with prompt notification if accepted elsewhere. - Response time: typically 6–8 months. Full guidelines: [theparisreview.org/about/submissions](https://www.theparisreview.org/about/submissions) Submission manager: [theparisreview.submittable.com/submit](https://theparisreview.submittable.com/submit)