Our Submittable site will be open for submissions of fiction and non-fiction beginning January 13. We will be particularly interested in work that might be read as crime, mystery, noir and mischief fiction. We are also seeking essays on the crime genre, especially as practiced by writers who get results not overwhelmed by cliche or conviction. While we’re not uninterested in Sam Spade, we’re more interested in Oates, Lehane, Wm. Gay. In other words, writers who seek to expand, subvert and remake the genre. Cozies and procedurals will not be at the center of our upcoming Noir issue.
Winter Submissions beginning January 13.
R. T. Smith has edited Shenandoah since 1995 and serves as Writer-in-Residence at Washington & Lee. His forthcoming books are Doves in Flight: 13 Fictions and Summoning Shades: New Poems, both due in 2017.