MISSION
Gordon Square Review (GSR) is a publication of Literary Cleveland, a nonprofit organization committed to creating a vital, diverse, and supportive literary community in Northeast Ohio. Gordon Square Review is published online biannually to showcase emerging writers nationwide and internationally, award editing mentorships, and provide a venue to spotlight Northeast Ohio writers.
Why Gordon Square?
Gordon Square Review is published by Literary Cleveland, a nonprofit organization working to nurture a vibrant literary arts community in Northeast Ohio. Literary Cleveland was founded in the Gordon Square Arts District, which serves as the cultural heart of Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood. Gordon Square Review embraces its namesake’s ideals surrounding creativity, artistic exploration, and the value of supporting and celebrating emerging talent.
What does Gordon Square Review publish?
Gordon Square Review considers submissions of short fiction, poetry, and short creative nonfiction from writers across the United States and internationally. We feature emerging writers no matter their geographic location, but we also reserve a special place for Northeast Ohio writers.
Northeast Ohio Writers
Every issue of Gordon Square Review will spotlight at least one writer in Northeast Ohio—an area that, by our definition, includes the Cleveland, Akron/Canton, Youngstown, Kent, and Lorain/Elyria/Oberlin areas. Northeast Ohio writers are particularly encouraged to enter our contests.
Editorial Mentorships
As part of its mission, Gordon Square Review strives to mentor emerging writers. During the selection process, each editor will each choose a piece of writing from the general submission pool and work with the author in revision. Completed drafts resulting from these mentorships will be published in Gordon Square Review and accompanied by micro essays from the respective contributors and editors. These competitive editing mentorships will help guide emerging writers through the revision and publication process. All writers who submit to Gordon Square Review are automatically considered for a mentorship.
Gordon Square Review is published by Literary Cleveland, a nonprofit organization working to nurture a vibrant literary arts community in Northeast Ohio. Literary Cleveland was founded in the Gordon Square Arts District, which serves as the cultural heart of Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood. Gordon Square Review embraces its namesake’s ideals surrounding creativity, artistic exploration, and the value of supporting and celebrating emerging talent.
What does Gordon Square Review publish?
Gordon Square Review considers submissions of short fiction, poetry, and short creative nonfiction from writers across the United States and internationally. We feature emerging writers no matter their geographic location, but we also reserve a special place for Northeast Ohio writers.
Northeast Ohio Writers
Every issue of Gordon Square Review will spotlight at least one writer in Northeast Ohio—an area that, by our definition, includes the Cleveland, Akron/Canton, Youngstown, Kent, and Lorain/Elyria/Oberlin areas. Northeast Ohio writers are particularly encouraged to enter our contests.
Editorial Mentorships
As part of its mission, Gordon Square Review strives to mentor emerging writers. During the selection process, each editor will each choose a piece of writing from the general submission pool and work with the author in revision. Completed drafts resulting from these mentorships will be published in Gordon Square Review and accompanied by micro essays from the respective contributors and editors. These competitive editing mentorships will help guide emerging writers through the revision and publication process. All writers who submit to Gordon Square Review are automatically considered for a mentorship.
MEET OUR EDITORIAL STAFF
MATT MITCHELL
POETRY EDITORMatt Mitchell is a poet, essayist, and music critic from Northeast Ohio. He writes for MTV, SPIN, Pitchfork, Paste, Catapult, and LitHub, among other places. Matt is the author of two books, The Neon Hollywood Cowboy (Big Lucks, 2021) and Vampire Burrito (Grieveland, 2023).
Find him on Twitter @matt_mitchell48 and Instagram @yogurttowne. |
JASON HARRIS
EDITOR-IN-CHIEFJason Harris is a Black American. He has received a fellowship from The Watering Hole and served as a Barbara Smith Writer-in-Residence at Twelve Literary Arts.
To read more of his work, you may visit his website. |
NARDINE TALEB
PROSE EDITORNardine Taleb is an Egyptian-American writer and speech therapist. Her writing has appeared in Rattle, The Commuter, Hobart, Mizna, The Offing, and elsewhere.
Visit her on twitter: @nardineta. |
SUPPORT
Support for Gordon Square Review comes from individuals like you, the George Gund Foundation, and state tax dollars allocated by the Ohio Legislature to the Ohio Arts Council (OAC). The OAC is a state agency that funds and supports quality arts experiences to strengthen Ohio communities culturally, educationally, and economically.
ABOUT LITERARY CLEVELAND
The nonprofit organization Literary Cleveland supports the publication of Gordon Square Review. Literary Cleveland was founded in 2015 to offer the region’s journalists, novelists, poets, short story writers, essayists, bloggers, authors of children’s and youth literature, technical writers, playwrights, and songwriters the opportunity to network, learn, and develop their skills. Literary Cleveland hosts the annual Inkubator conference as well as dozens of classes, workshops, readings, panel discussions, and other literary events that have served thousands of writers across Northeast Ohio.
CONTACT US
To submit work, see our Submit page. Send general inquiries* to [email protected].
