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The Persistence of Desire:
A Review of
Lawrence E. Hussman’s
Last Things and Acanemia:
A Memoir of Life in the
Halls of the Higher Learning

Carmine Di Biase

Nonfiction

My First Summer as an International, Top-Secret Spy

Kimberly Willardson

Creative writing and inspirational ideas

Nonfiction

Going Places, Who Knows Where?

Mark Morelli

Issue #24, themed “Changes,” is now available. Order your copy here.

Submissions NOW Open on Rolling Basis: TVBR Editors Seek Flash Fiction, Time Capsules, and Haibun

The Vincent Brothers Review editors also eagerly seek submissions of Flash Fiction, Time Capsules, and Haibun for our online and hard-copy issues and our substack newsletter. The submissions are accepted year-round, and the reading fee is $3.00 per submission. Writers can include up to three Time Capsules, three haibun, or a mix of the three per each submission. Please have a look at our Submittable page for more information.

We also plan to sponsor a haibun contest in 2023 centered around the images/ideas of full moon cycles and women’s empowerment. Stay tuned here and on our Submittable.com site for details.

More details and the submissions portal will link here.

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“Work”-themed Short Story Contest Submissions Portal Is NOW Open

The Vincent Brothers Review editors eagerly seek entries to our “Work” Short Story Contest. First Prize of $1,000, second prize of $500, and two honorable-mention prizes of $150 each will be awarded to the top four selections. The submission process is through electronic submission only.

The entrance fee is $10.00 per story entered. You can enter more than once as long as each entry is accompanied by the $10 entry fee.

Entry fees will be used to cover the prize money as well as the production and printing costs of our Issue #29. Eight contest finalists will be chosen by TVBR editors from the pool of entries. Rafael Alvarez will choose the final four place winners, and all four will be published in TVBR’s hard-copy issue #27 with a projected publication date of May 2024. All entries will also be considered for both online and hard-copy issue publication in TVBR.

The theme for the upcoming contest is “Work.”

No maximum word length is set, but please note that the editors usually prefer stories not longer than 8,000 words. The deadline for our Short Story Contest is December 31, 2023.

Issue #29 Submissions Portal Will Open in August 2023

Our Submittable.com submissions portal for our Issue #29—themed “Work”—will open in August 2023 here.

TVBR is a paying market, and we typically pay $25 per poem and $125 per short story/nonfiction piece UPON PUBLICATION. Our modest submission fees cover payment to writers and staff and the production and printing costs of our online and hard-copy issues. All rights revert to authors upon publication.

All submissions will also be considered for an upcoming online issue of TVBR. No maximum word limit is set, though we usually select stories in the 4,000 to 6,000-word range. We accept poems with shorter line lengths for our PRINT issues, as our format is a 3.5 x 5 chapbook. We don’t have any line-length requirements for our website or substack. The submission process is through electronic submission only. The deadline for Issue #29 is December 31, 2023.

TVBR’s Issue #25, Themed “Ghosts,” is Now Under Production

Congratulations to TVBR’s 2020 Short Story Contest Winners

You Are Not Alone

How to Go Off the Wagon

Fairy on the Stairs

Preservation

Charactery

ABRACADABRA

The Persistence of Desire:
A Review of
Lawrence E. Hussman’s
Last Things and Acanemia:
A Memoir of Life in the
Halls of the Higher Learning

My First Summer as an International, Top-Secret Spy

Coffee Shop Didactics

Going Places, Who Knows Where?

Issue #24, themed “Changes,” is now available. Order your copy here.

Submissions NOW Open on Rolling Basis: TVBR Editors Seek Flash Fiction, Time Capsules, and Haibun

“Work”-themed Short Story Contest Submissions Portal Is NOW Open

Issue #29 Submissions Portal Will Open in August 2023

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