{"id":175397,"date":"2026-10-01T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=175397"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:24:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:24:30","slug":"submitting-to-the-paris-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2026\/10\/01\/submitting-to-the-paris-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers Whose Names You Don\u2019t Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_175416\" style=\"width: 2010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-175416\" class=\"wp-image-175416 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/tpr-slush-ad-2000px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/tpr-slush-ad-2000px.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/tpr-slush-ad-2000px-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/tpr-slush-ad-2000px-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/tpr-slush-ad-2000px-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/tpr-slush-ad-2000px-1536x922.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-175416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration by Na Kim<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Today marks the opening of our October online-submissions period for prose and poetry. This week, we asked our assistant editor, Owen Park, to describe the journey a piece can take from the slush pile into our pages.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Over the past seventy-three years, <em>The Paris Review<\/em>\u2019s commitment to reading unsolicited submissions has yielded the discoveries of work by writers such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/authors\/5886\/yiyun-li\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/authors\/5886\/yiyun-li\">Yiyun Li<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/authors\/5215\/philip-roth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/authors\/5215\/philip-roth\">Philip Roth<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/authors\/5812\/wells-tower\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/authors\/5812\/wells-tower\">Wells Tower<\/a>. We know that the next writer we fall for won\u2019t necessarily have an M.F.A. or an agent, and so the slush pile remains our best line of contact with the emerging authors whose names we haven\u2019t yet heard.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Many of the poems in our recent issues have come to us through our online submissions system, <a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.submittable.com\/submit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.submittable.com\/submit\">Submittable<\/a>, including Rachel Lapides\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/8464\/public-domain-rachel-lapides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/8464\/public-domain-rachel-lapides\">Public Domain<\/a>,\u201d Yongyu Chen\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/8403\/outpost-yongyu-chen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/8403\/outpost-yongyu-chen\">Outpost<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0Edward Salem\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/8381\/my-aerodynamics-edward-salem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/8381\/my-aerodynamics-edward-salem\">My Aerodynamics<\/a>,\u201d and Olivia Sokolowski\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/8008\/lover-of-cars-olivia-sokolowski\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/8008\/lover-of-cars-olivia-sokolowski\">Lover of Cars<\/a>.\u201d Occasionally, we will pull a great piece of prose straight from Submittable, too, and accept it for the magazine. More often, however, when we read something we think shows real promise, we\u2019ll reach out to the writer, sharing thoughts on what they\u2019ve sent us and asking to see more. This is how we came to publish the writer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/10768\/their-utopia-brian-ma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/10768\/their-utopia-brian-ma\">Brian Ma<\/a> in our recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/back-issues\/257\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/back-issues\/257\">Fall issue<\/a>. Ma had submitted several stories to us by the time January Santoso, a member of the <em>Review<\/em>\u2019s reading team\u2014a group of ten readers who carefully consider the thousands of submissions we receive online and by mail each year\u2014urged us to read his latest, last October. We got in touch, asked what else he had, and were ecstatic to later receive his novel in progress, about a haunting series of events at a cell-phone factory in Vietnam, from which \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/10768\/their-utopia-brian-ma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/10768\/their-utopia-brian-ma\">Their Utopia<\/a>\u201d is extracted.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Review<\/em>\u2019s journey to publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/8494\/lil-spooky-chad-fore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/8494\/lil-spooky-chad-fore\">Chad Fore<\/a>, who appeared in this year\u2019s Summer issue, involved a similarly extended conversation, one that began in early 2025, after we received an excited note from the former <em>Review<\/em> reader Clayton Wickham. We read more of Fore\u2019s work and traded notes with him for nearly a year, a correspondence that culminated in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/8494\/lil-spooky-chad-fore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/8494\/lil-spooky-chad-fore\">Lil Spooky<\/a>,\u201d his story of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/14\/chad-fore-on-lil-spooky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/14\/chad-fore-on-lil-spooky\/\">freestyle rap<\/a> and small-town gang violence in late-nineties California. I remember, the first time we spoke on the phone, picking up and saying, \u201cChad!\u201d and him saying, \u201cOwen!\u201d and then neither of us saying anything else for a while. We\u2019d exchanged dozens of emails, which went far beyond the usual small talk; it was the kind of back and forth that made us both forget we\u2019d never actually met. Fore\u2019s debut novel, which expands on the world of \u201cLil Spooky,\u201d is forthcoming from Henry Holt.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, discovering new voices also requires leaving our inboxes, our laptops, and our office behind. We travel to book festivals, strike up conversations with teachers and translators, and ask friends to attend readings all over the world. As satisfying as it is to find up-and-coming writers in the wild, some of the prose and poetry we\u2019ve published in our recent issues\u2014such as Millicent Borges Accardi\u2019s poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/8441\/good-tank-farms-millicent-borges-accardi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/8441\/good-tank-farms-millicent-borges-accardi\">Good Tank Farms<\/a>\u201d\u2014reached the <em>Review<\/em> the same way it did in our earliest days: through the mail. Avigayl Sharp\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7948\/uncontrollable-irrelevant-avigayl-sharp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7948\/uncontrollable-irrelevant-avigayl-sharp\">Uncontrollable, Irrelevant<\/a>,\u201d which ran in our Winter 2022 issue, landed on our doormat in late summer of that year. The story was picked up by our reader Jay Graham, who had been churning through the backlog of paper submissions we\u2019d accrued during lockdown. At the time, I was working as a reader myself\u2014and when I next visited the office for a fresh stack of manuscripts, I found Sharp\u2019s story waiting for me, with an exclamatory Post-it from Jay affixed to the first page. I handed it to the editors that same day. Sharp\u2019s debut novel, <em>Offseason<\/em>, was published in May by Astra House, who will also release her debut collection, <em>Sickness, Health<\/em> (which includes \u201cUncontrollable, Irrelevant\u201d), in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>We know that, as a writer, it\u2019s easy to imagine, as you pause with your finger on the Submit\u00a0button, or drop an envelope into the mailbox, that your work is heading into a kind of void. But our reading process remains as personal as it always has been\u2014predicated on such analogue tasks as licking envelopes, exchanging notes, arguing respectfully, and making long phone calls. It\u2019s not always efficient, but as anyone who has read the above poems and stories will know, it\u2019s entirely worth it.<\/p>\n<p>You can read our frequently asked questions about submitting work to the <em>Review<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/about\/submissions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/about\/submissions\">here<\/a>. And if you, like some writers we know, aren\u2019t great with deadlines, you can now send us a hard-copy, snail-mail submission any day of the year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Owen Park is the <\/em>Review<em>\u2019s assistant editor.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our submissions-reading process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2584,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2559],"tags":[68936,68937,67827],"class_list":["post-175397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulletin","tag-adelle-waldman","tag-bpi","tag-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Submitting to The Paris Review by Owen Park<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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