The Shanghai Literary Review accepts submissions for TSLR Online on a rolling basis throughout the year. Twice each year, we open our submission period for our print magazine. 

The open submission period for the next print issue (TSLR 9, Spring/Summer 2025) has now closed. Due to the overwhelming number of submissions (over 500), we have temporarily paused general submissions.

We are interested in art and writing about urbanism, globalism, identity, and transnationalism, though by no means should submissions be limited to those topics. We'll publish a good story about cats in Africa if it floors us. Selected works will be published online and/or in print.

Please note that we do not accept genre writing: romance, science fiction, crime, fantasy, etc. We do accept literary works that can bend genres to a degree. But TSLR is a home for literary writing.

Visual artists who want to submit more than one piece—please upload either a zip file of your pieces, or upload them into one submission. Please do not submit multiple times for different pieces.

Despite an overwhelming number of submissions, we aim to reply to all submitters.