About Us
The Bosque River Review is a new literary journal affiliated with Tarleton State University’s Department of English & Languages. The journal is named for the 104-mile river originating in Stephenville, Texas. For each issue, undergraduate student editors curate and publish submitted art in prose and poetry. We are a magazine that is proud to publish quality literary art from all writers, no matter their level of experience. Moreover, though we exist in the literary tradition, we believe that quality work across genres is as deserving of the label ‘literary’ as any other. Which is to say: we crave, too, your strange tales, your experiments in style and form, your wildest imaginings.
Website art: Nubian Queen Art by Leah Marie Simmons
Editors-in-Chief: Andrew Kitchens, K. D. Ward
Editors: Kayden Biggars, Sophia Bolton, RaeAnne Conner, Teagan Driscoll, Yanina Gonzalez-Villegas, Sarah Marcantonio, Ody McKean, Tim McKeen, Grant Rogers, Navalee White
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Jacob Brewer, Dr. Walter Moore
Submit prose, poetry, or artwork
Now accepting submissions for Volume 2, set for publication in May 2027
PROSE: 5000 words or less, double-spaced and 12pt Times New Roman, according to Shunn Manuscript Format (.docx file).
POETRY: up to 5 poems per submission (.docx file).
ART: up to 3 pieces per submission (.jpeg format).
Submit your work to: BosqueRiverReview@tarleton.edu
SUBMISSION EMAIL SUBJECT LINE and FILE NAME: Genre_Surname_Title
- Fiction_Hannah_Testimony of Pilot
- Poetry_Yeats_The Lake Isle of Innisfree-The Fiddler of Dooney-Ephemera
Please include a cover letter that contains submission details (story length; # of poems or art pieces, with titles) and any publishing history you might want to share.
After you submit, please report your submission on one or all of the following (we’d really appreciate it!):
The Submission Grinder: Bosque River Review – The Submission Grinder
Duotrope: Bosque River Review | Duotrope
Chill Subs: Bosque River Review – Chill Subs
If you need to withdraw your submission for any reason, email us at BosqueRiverReview@tarleton.edu.
*Note that the Bosque River Review does not accept any work written with or assisted by artificial intelligence or any similar technologies. Such submissions will be rejected and authors will be banned from submitting to the journal in the future.