Contact Us
GENERAL INFO
For corrections, questions, praise, or the airing of grievances, contact [email protected].
To submit a literary event for our calendar, contact [email protected].
WRITING FOR US
We accept pitches, but note: This does not include reviews, which are assigned in-house. (Want to review for us? Cool! Reach out with some clips.) What we are looking for are pieces about books, authors, reading, and writing. We’re open to all good ideas, so if you’ve got one, tell us about it (but PLEASE familiarize yourself with us — and the type and length of pieces we run — first). We pay $100 per accepted submission; there’s no kill fee. Email [email protected]. We will respond to all serious, non-spammy inquiries, but be patient: We’re perpetually swamped! (Still, if too many weeks have gone by, feel free to nudge us!)
SPONSORED CONTENT AND/OR ADVERTORIAL
We DO NOT accept it. Please stop asking.
OUR FRIENDS & SUPPORTERS
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RIGHTS
The Contributor shall retain copyright ownership of all original works submitted for possible publication by the Washington Independent Review of Books (“the Independent”). Upon submission of any work by Contributor, the Independent shall have first worldwide publication rights to publish the work in the Independent or another publication owned by the Independent and, in conjunction with its other publishing activities, to reproduce, distribute, promote, or display the work. If work published in the Independent is later reprinted in another publication, please include the following language somewhere in the reprinted work: “This piece originally appeared in the Washington Independent Review of Books.”
NONDISCRIMINATION POLICY
The Washington Independent Review of Books does not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, ethnicity, or religion when hiring contributors or selecting books to review. Neither do we tolerate sexual harassment.
TO SUBMIT A GALLEY, ARC, FINISHED BOOK, OR POETRY
Finished copies, galleys, chapbooks, and publishers’ catalogs (no unbound manuscripts, please) can be mailed to the address below. We’re sorry that we cannot acknowledge receipt of unsolicited items. (NOTE: Submitting a book DOES NOT guarantee it will be reviewed or otherwise covered.)
Washington Independent Review of Books
7029 Ridge Road
Frederick, MD 21702
TO SUBMIT AN E-GALLEY OR PDF
These can be emailed to [email protected]. Full disclosure: It is much better to submit physical works. We understand it can be expensive and time-consuming to do so, but we want to be honest here.
ALL OTHER CORRESPONDENCE (regular mail ONLY)
Washington Independent Review of Books
3037 Dumbarton Street, NW
Washington, DC 20007