We're currently open for submissions for our 2024 summer/fall issue.
Rise Up Review is a landing site for the poetry and prose of opposition.
We feature personal essays about one's political life or political essays about one's personal life, essays that detail the ways that policy or the threat of policy affect individuals in our current climate.
Poetry has the ability to address injustices and oppression in a manner that is both lyrical and intimate. The best such instances of this power avoid the didactic, because we learn about human evils and frailties, human love and strength, from the stories we tell. Poetry is a hammer is a flame is a flag of dissent is an olive branch. We proffer it to you.
You may submit up to three poems with the understanding that one will be selected.
Consider that we're not looking for poems that are overly instructive. Moreover, poems that effectively bridge the divide between the lyrical and the narrative are preferable and most likely to be selected. We especially want poems that are accessible enough to be shared even by those who may not have known they needed poetry until they stumbled on your work. The poems we most gravitate towards are those that reveal what's personally at stake for the speaker of the poem. Diversity is very important to us as a means of bringing disparate experiences together under one roof with the belief that there are more things that unite us as humans than there are that separate us.
Simultaneous submissions are encouraged, but please let us know if a submission has been accepted elsewhere.
A note on re-prints: We will accept reprints of poems that have appeared in print journals only in order to give them a new life on the Internet.
You may submit up to three poems with the understanding that one will be selected. Fees collected in the tip jar will go directly to pay the expenses of the journal such as the cost of Web hosting.
Consider that we're not looking for poems that are overly instructive. Moreover, poems that effectively bridge the divide between the lyrical and the narrative are preferable and most likely to be selected. We especially want poems that are accessible enough to be shared even by those who may not have known they needed poetry until they stumbled on your work. The poems we most gravitate towards are those that reveal what's personally at stake for the speaker of the poem. Diversity is very important to us as a means of bringing disparate experiences together under one roof with the belief that there are more things that unite us as humans than there are that separate us.
Simultaneous submissions are encouraged, but please let us know if a submission has been accepted elsewhere.
A note on re-prints: We will accept reprints of poems that have appeared in print journals only in order to give them a new life on the Internet.
You may submit a single essay with a 2000 word max.
We feature personal essays about one's political life or political essays about one's personal life. We're looking, in particular, for essays that detail the ways that policy or the threat of policy affect an individual in our current climate. Diversity is very important to us as a means of bringing disparate experiences together under one roof with the belief that there are more things that unite us as humans than there are that seperate us.
Simultaneous submissions are encouraged, but please let us know if your piece has been accepted elsewhere.
A note on re-prints: We will accept reprints of personal essays that have appeared only in print journals in order to give them a new life on the Internet.
You may submit a single essay with a 2000 word max. Fees collected in the tip jar go directly to pay the expenses of the journal such as the cost of Web hosting.
We feature personal essays about one's political life or political essays about one's personal life. We're looking, in particular, for essays that detail the ways that policy or the threat of policy affect an individual in our current climate. Diversity is very important to us as a means of bringing disparate experiences together under one roof with the belief that there are more things that unite us as humans than there are that seperate us.
Simultaneous submissions are encouraged, but please let us know if your piece has been accepted elsewhere.
A note on re-prints: We will accept reprints of personal essays that have appeared only in print journals in order to give them a new life on the Internet.