The Shanghai Literary Review will be accepting submissions with no fee from September 18-October 9, 2023. Outside of this window, all submissions will incur a reading fee. The deadline to submit for TSLR8 will be November 1, 2023.

We are interested in art and criticism 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 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. Do not submit multiple times for different pieces, thank you.

Due to an overwhelming number of submissions, we regret that we cannot reply to all submissions.