Guidelines for Reviewers
We accept unsolicited submissions of non-fiction reviews 700-900 words long. Such reviews should be on forthcoming books or current books published no more than two months before we receive your review. Include a third-person biography of no more than fifty words. Email your submission in plain text to Associate Editor Ruth Douillette
While the IRB’s focus is primarily non-fiction, we also publish reviews of mainstream or literary fiction under the same rules.
Each issue also will include a featured review or an essay of 1,500-2,000 words. Essays will address issues of interest in nonfiction and fiction. We welcome proposals for such a review or essay.
Please send reviews of novels or proposals for essays about fiction to our fiction editor, Julie McGuire.
Unlike our other reviews, reviews for our Lasting Impressions series should not be about a current book, but rather one from your past that has remained in your memory for years. Tell about the book and the ways it affected you. This is an area open for reviews of either fiction or non-fiction.
If you’d like to be on our list of staff essay writers or regular reviewers in any of these areas, contact Associate Editor Ruth Douillette. She’ll get in touch with you about the next step.
Please read past issues for examples of the sorts of reviews we publish.
At present we don’t pay for reviews, though we hope to be able to in the reasonably near future.
Carter Jefferson, Editor
The Internet Review of Books
