Submission Guidelines
Thanks for your interest in Freeman Review. We welcome submissions from anyone in high school from grades 9 to 12. Please use an e-mail address that will not block our email address which is freemanquery at gmail.com.
To submit, you must first fill out our form at the bottom as you scroll down, but please read these guidelines first.
Once you fill out the submission form below, for a writing submission, it will direct you to attach your writing to an e-mail to freemanquery at gmail.com.
For any other type of submission other than writing, once you fill out the submission form below, it will direct you to provide a link in the body of the e-mail to freemanquery at gmail.com.
When you reply with a writing submission, send the following e-mail to freemanquery at gmail.com with your writing attached:
Re: WRITING SUBMISSION, LAST NAME, FIRST NAME
Dear Freeman Review:
I submitted the form and I am attaching my submission in Word (.doc/.docx) format. I can be reached at this e-mail address.
Sincerely,
Contributor
If submitting anything other than writing, this e-mail to freemanquery at gmail.com should be sent with a link in the body of the e-mail.
Re: ARTS SUBMISSION, LAST NAME, FIRST NAME
Dear Freeman Review:
I submitted the form. Below is a link from which you can download my submission.
http://www.dropbox.com/smithbob/freeman — this is just an example.
I can be reached at this e-mail address.
Sincerely,
Contributor
What to Submit:
Freeman Review accepts submissions of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and essays, along with submissions of links to music, still and moving images of photos, visual art, video/film, dance, acting/monologue, and other performances. At least half or more of what we publish is prose and poetry.
What Are We Looking For ?
We are looking for submissions from your unique perspective that will help and inspire those, primarily other young people, who experience your work. Dig deep — be honest — be raw — but be polished. Describe a personal obstacle and how you have overcome it. Describe your life and your journey so someone else can relate to it or learn from it. Write a great story with unforgettable characters and a unique message. Express your point of view, and in doing so, acknowledge any other views while explaining why your view is the correct one. Push yourself so that your work connects with another young or other person, including people who you would normally not connect with. Submit something so powerful that we have no choice but to publish it.
Writing Submissions
If submitting writing, writing submissions have a 3000 word count limit. Please use 12 point Times New Roman font, please double space and please indent paragraphs. For writing submissions, 3000 words is approximately 3 double spaced pages using 12 pt Times New Roman per submission. Do not submit work in the body of an e-mail. Please include on your submission your Last Name, First Name, e-mail address and word count centered in the header, and please include centered page numbers in the footer. Submissions should be contained on one document in Word. Again, the e-mail address is freemanquery at gmail.com.
Fiction:
Short stories and flash fiction submissions are ideal, but any category of fiction is acceptable.
Non-Fiction:
We are very interested in your creative non-fiction, memoir and personal essays. Any story based on your experience that might help someone else is what we want. Or write about the experience and tell us about what you did in response to the experience or what you learned from it. Your solution to your obstacle might help or inspire someone else. One to two pieces per submission please.
Poetry:
Send us up to three poems totaling no more than 3000 words. Poetry submissions may be single spaced with one poem per page, and should be contained on one document only in Word.
Submissions Other Than Writing:
If you are submitting anything other than writing, you must provide us with work that is hosted elsewhere and we will link to the work. Links to YouTube for video is preferred. Links to Google Photos and Flickr are good choices for free hosting of images. Links to Soundcloud and Bandcamp for music is preferred. We cannot host large sound, audio, video or image files. Do not attach to an e-mail please.
From our musician, dancer, filmmaker, and actor friends, please send us links to video of a dance or monologue or poetry or track or a song or a musical or other performance that is bold and brave and that can help or inspire someone else who views it.
Music:
If submitting music, please open up a free SoundCloud or BandCamp account, upload the sound files, and please send a link. We will consider linking to other platforms, but if the sound is poor quality, we will not publish the link. Please do not attach .mp3, .wav, .aiff or other sound files to any e-mail as we cannot host audio, just link to them.
Film/Short Video/Acting/Monologue:
If submitting a video, YouTube as a linked platform is preferred. For video, please merely provide a link to the work as Freeman Review does not host streaming content. Please do not attach .mp4, .mov, or other moving image files to any e-mail as we cannot host video, just link to it.
Photos/Art:
From our visual artist and photographer friends, please share the work that tells us who you are and what you need to say to the world. Link to Google Photos or Flickr of up to four hi-resolution images of artwork, four photographs or any combination per submission. Please do not attach images in .jpeg, .gif, .png, .tiff or any format to any email, as again, we cannot host large image files.
Miscellaneous:
Note that the form as you scroll down requires that you submit a bio and a pitch for charity. Without the form, we cannot consider the submission. So submit the form first, then send the e-mail with the attached writing or link to your work.
In the bio, tell us who you are, where you are from, why you do what you do and describe anything you care to share about yourself. Keep it less than 200 words please.
The form also requires that you include your pitch for charity. Here is an example: “Please consider donating to _____________. The charity’s mission is ___________. Their work is important to me because _________. If you appreciate my work, any donation to my charity would mean alot to Freeman Review, to me and to my charity. Thank you.” Keep the pitch less than 200 words please. If your charity is not listed on our site, we will consider linking to it once we review their mission statement and determine that their donation platform is secure and reliable.
Finally, tell us why we should publish your work. This is your chance to describe what you are trying to say or do with your work, and to say anything else you think is important for us to consider.
When you submit to Freeman Review and if we publish any part of the submission, you are giving us First Serial Rights, and a license to archive and host the work. If the license or encumbrance because of publication on Freeman Review becomes an issue for the contributor who seeks to enter into an exclusive or other agreement with an agent, publisher or anyone, Freeman Review will consider releasing you from any obligation. We want to support you — not hold you back. Copyrights of all work published on Freeman Review remain with the author.