About The Pocket Review

Our design team has put together posters calling for submissions (fiction and poetry) to The Pocket Review. Please, if you have the time, download these posters in PDF format, and print them on whatever kind of printer is handy: an ink-jet, your company's laser printer, or an old dot-matrix. Hang them in your local coffee shop. In the English Department at your local university. Anywhere you think people might be interested in sharing their professional, well-crafted fiction and poetry.

The World's First Green Literary Journal arrives in style! The Pocket Review is published wirelessly on the Amazon Kindle. No paper, no waste.

Registered users may also access the stories—and exclusive content like interviews, forums, articles by professional authors, and an online writers' workshop—for absolutely free. All you have to do is sign up on the left. We promise not to use your contact information for any dubious purpose. In fact, we don't even know how.

Every month, The Pocket Review publishes one outstanding short story. Each story is available online and on the Kindle for $1. You can download previous stories in the Archives, or find out more about a certain story by visiting Ask the Writer. If you're interested in submitting your story, read our Submission Guidelines.

For more information about The Pocket Review, including staff information, our headquarters and policies, or just general trivia about the journal's origin, click over to About Us.

The Pocket Review, as you may have heard ten trillion times, is staffed by volunteers. The editors are a small, dedicated bunch with not much money to our names. However, we learn quickly, and we are dedicated like you wouldn't believe.

As the journal grows, we'd love to expand—that means paying editors and contributors, publishing more often, and generally giving back to our readership. Offering contests, maybe, with a generous cash prize for the best short story or most outstanding poem. And we would love—truly love—to give away an Amazon Kindle. Also on our list? Forming a writers' retreat where members actually come together to work in person. But we can't do it without capital.

That's where you, the loyal reader, come in.

The Pocket Review’s watchword is professional. And, um, the second watchword is fun. The third is—well, let’s see—scholarly. No, professionalism and fun are not mutually exclusive. So have fun, be professional, and, if you want to, be scholarly.

Please, familiarize yourself with the Terms of Service below, which are very flexible and subject to an editor's discretion. We’d hate for you to get in trouble for something you didn’t even know was against the rules. We will assume that whoever signs up for an account on The Pocket Review has read the guidelines set forth below (even if you haven’t). It's in your best interest to read below and find out what you can and can't do on our website. As always, we thank you for using The Pocket Review.