Best of the Net Nominations
Our Best of the Net nominations.
Out Now: Summer 2025
The SDL Review- SUMMER 2025
In This Issue:
- Leland Seese- At Katy’s, Martin, east to princeton
- D. Larissa Peters – Border, First-born Son, Geriatric Happiness
- San Hendrian – Photoshoot Fantasies, Wordless Truth, Blanket, Skin and Bones, Showed Promise
- Laura Shell – I was Right
- PLUS – Street Art Lost to Time, Indie Spotlights, award news, and more.
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Previous Issue — Spring 2025
The SDL Review- Spring 2025
- Angela Townsend – Happy Here
- Tess Godhardt – Thanks for the Evidence, The Necklace, Drywall Pieces
- Jim Burns – The Fence, My Father’s Closet
- Jackie Fishman – The Decision and the Dog
- C.B. Mottor – Pretty Poison, Dionysus
- Carla Sarett – A review of A FUTURE WITH BROMELIADS by Grace Massey
- Indie Spotlights, award news, a cover reveal, and more.
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Next Issue — Fall 2025
The SDL Review- FALL 2025 – Coming November 15th
Contributors to be announced.
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The SDL Review
Submissions
The SDL Review, a paying lit journal/anthology hybrid publishing profound works of poetry, prose, visual art, articles, reviews, and indie news. Available in print and eBook editions.
The SDL Review is founded on the profound belief that poets and writers have the power to transcend boundaries, foster empathy, enhance understanding, and catalyze social change. We believe literature should reflect the complexity of life and we aim to offer a broader, more accurate view of the human condition.
We are drawn to evocative, raw, poignant, and powerful pieces of substance and style.
Pluck at our heartstrings, speak to our souls, send shivers down our spines, shine a light on our darkness, and uncover all of our unspoken truths.
As of April 2025, the standard submission response time is 4-6 months.
Poetry & Prose up to 500 words
Eligible work: Previously unpublished poetry and prose works up to 500 words (Poetry of all forms, flash fiction and CNF, essays, vignettes, and hybrid or experimental works)
500 to 1500 Word Pieces
Eligible work: previously unpublished fiction, CNF, personal essays, prose poetry, hybrid or experimental works, and relevant articles between 500 words and 1500 words.
ALL POETRY AND PROSE SUBMISSIONS FOR THE SDL REVIEW MUST BE SUBMITTED THROUGH DUOTROPE.
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The SDL Review's Best of the Net Nominations
Read selections from The SDL Review - Summer 2025
Read selections from The SDL Review - Spring 2025
Each finger on your calloused hand left an imprint on my neck. I display each red indentation for the officer’s flashing camera. Are there any other injuries? I imagine grabbing the butcher’s knife from the kitchen drawer nearby, slicing . . . read more
Grace Massey comes late to the world poetry, after a career as an editor. Emotional maturity is on full display in her debut chapbook, A FUTURE WITH BROMELIADS — a book of family ghosts and quiet sorrows. . . . read more
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