Ponder Review

03/29/2025

Contributor Julia Philipp stopped by our table at this afternoon. She was one of our Pushcart nominees. Great to meet her in person!

02/11/2025

📢 Call for Submissions! ✍️

Ponder is seeking Creative Nonfiction for our upcoming issue!
✨ What We’re Looking For:
✅ Engaging personal narratives
✅ Thought-provoking essays
✅ Lyrical and experimental nonfiction

📝 Deadline: March 15, 2025
📩 Submit your work at: https://www.muw.edu/ponderreview/submit/

Share your story with us!

12/15/2024

And our next reading period has begun! Send us your






December 15-March 15
ponderreview.submittable.com

12/13/2024

Ponder Review 8.2 is in the world, y’all! Contributor copies should go out early next week.

12/07/2024

Playwrights! It's not too late to submit your play to our 10:4 Tenn Playwriting contest. This year's final judge will be Gary Garrison, author of "Perfect Ten: Writing and Producing the Ten-Minute Play."

Deadline, Dec. 14!

10:4 TENN Ten-Minute Play Contest Ponder Review, in partnership with the Tennessee Williams Tribute Festival, is launching our Fifth Annual 10:4 Tenn Playwright Contest! This competition seeks to recognize and honor the Southern experience and the legacy of Columbus’s native son, Tennessee William...

12/07/2024

Time to order Ponder Review 8.2!

12/06/2024

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Ponder Review Volume 8, Issue 2 is on its way, get yours today! https://ponderreview.com

11/29/2024

Here are our nominees for the prize this year!

09/16/2024

, we just heard the winning plays from last year's 10:4 Tenn contest performed at the Tennessee Williams Tribute in Columbus Mississippi. Today we opened submissions for our fifth annual ten-minute play contest. See our website for full details. ponderreview.com

09/16/2024

Our window for Ponder Review volume 8, issue 2 ended yesterday. Thanks to all who submitted your work. We are busy reading, looking for the best pieces that can combine to make another great issue. Visit our website to read free archived back issues or to order the current or next issue. Our next submission period starts December 15, so mark your calendars! ponderreview.com

09/08/2024

With just a week left to submit before our Sept. 15 deadline, we're looking for your CNF, short plays, and New Media writing. Of course, we also want to read more poetry and fiction, including flash fiction. Send us your work at ponderreview.submittable.com

09/05/2024

Curious about Ponder Review?

You can read about us on even if you aren't a member. For instance, they report we have 8.5-10% acceptance rate. That may be a little high (it's based on Duotrope member reporting), but isn't far from the mark.

PONDER REVIEW is a student-run publication of the MFA program at Mississippi University for Women, staffed by graduate students. PR publishes fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short plays, new media, and visual art. MISSION: We seek stories that challenge, stories that shift our view, i...

09/05/2024

Only 10 days until our Sept. 15 deadline! Send us your , , , , , or writing. ponderreview.submittable.com

08/16/2024

you have one more month to submit to
Ponder Review

Issue 8.1 is now available!   Ponder Review welcomes: Fiction Flash Fiction Creative Nonfiction Poetry Short plays New media Visual artRequired Format: Times Roman 12pt. All prose should be double-spaced. Poetry should be single-spaced. Include a brief (100 word) bio with your submission.Ponder R...

07/27/2024

Ponder Review is open for with seven more weeks in our reading period! Now is a great time to send us your &

Issue 8.1 is now available!   Ponder Review welcomes: Fiction Flash Fiction Creative Nonfiction Poetry Short plays New media Visual artRequired Format: Times Roman 12pt. All prose should be double-spaced. Poetry should be single-spaced. Include a brief (100 word) bio with your submission.Ponder R...

03/25/2024

We have our winners!!

Congrats to these three playwrights and a huge thank you to our judge, Samantha Marchant, for picking these three great plays! All of our finalists' plays will be read at the Tennessee Williams Tribute in Columbus, Mississippi in September. First place winner Steven Miller's "Lunée Bin" will also appear in Ponder Review's 8.2 issue alongside an interview with Miller.

We had a huge pool of submissions for this year's 10:4 Tenn contest. It was no small feat in choosing the finalists out of all the talent we were pleased to read. Thank you to everyone who submitted, and we'd like to remind you that submissions will open up again for next year's 10:4 Tenn Playwriting Contest in September. Be on the lookout for posts with more information in the upcoming months.

Congrats, again, to our winners!

03/15/2024

It's the last day!!

Make sure you get those submissions in before our deadline so that we can read/see your work!

Guidelines and submission forms can be found here: https://ponderreview.submittable.com/submit

03/13/2024

Only Two Days Left!!

Have you submitted yet?

https://ponderreview.submittable.com/submit