Rubbertop Review

02/06/2024

Submit to our friends at Kent! 💛

WE. ARE. OPEN. Haymaker Literary Journal is calling for submissions portraying the art and writing of local, national, and international creators! For submission guidelines and where to submit, check out the link in our bio!

11/26/2023

There’s still time! Submit your dark, gritty and just overall bad ass work to Rubbertop Review. We can’t wait to hear from you!

Submissions close December 3.

Submit here: https://rubbertopreview.submittable.com/submit

11/14/2023

Lauren is such a wonderful, kind person. Please consider donating if you can.

Dear Friends, Family, and Kindhearted people, It is with a heavy heart that we … Kelly Parker needs your support for Help Lauren Olesh Beat Breast Cancer

10/13/2023

Issue 14 is out for delivery! We’re so excited for our contributors to be able to view their work in print! Thank you to everyone for your patience and we hope you love it as much as we do! 🖤

10/02/2023

We’re open for submissions! Submit your darkest tales of triumph, your stories of grit and grind and everything in between! We want to read all of it! Open for submissions October 1-December 3!

https://rubbertopreview.submittable.com/submit

09/30/2023

Every month A Dozen Nothing brings you new work by one poet, and every September, from so much work we love, we struggle to choose six poems to nominate for Sundress Publications' Best of the Net Anthology. Thank you to all the poets who let us feature their writing this past year. And congratulations to the nominees!

09/29/2023

We open for submissions October 1! Send us your scrappy poems, fiction, creative nonfiction, and greyscale art. We look forward to spending time with all of it 🖤

09/12/2023

Mark your calendars for this can't miss event sponsored by The Upstart Crows and Ashbelt. Come to read or to listen, but don't miss it!

03/29/2022

Come support local scholars at SAGES 7th Annual Interdisciplinary Student Conference!

03/24/2022

11/16/2021

Accepting Submissions https://rubbertopreview.submittable.com/submit

10/30/2021

10/04/2021

Rubbertop 12 is finally online for your reading pleasure! Follow this link: https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/rubbertopreview/

Free physical copies will be distributed throughout NE Ohio-- a list of places will be posted soon. If you would like a copy mailed to you for a small shipping fee, please contact [email protected].

Also, look for submission details for Rubbertop XIII next week!

01/15/2021

Last chance to get your works into Volume 12! Give us your poetry, your fiction, your nonfiction. Give us your guts, your glory, your "Eee Gads!" Check out our submittable page for more information. rubbertopreview.submittable.com

12/19/2020

Featuring Mary Ozbolt’s review of Annah Browning’s Witch Doctrine.

https://www.thebind.net/blog/browning-witchdoctrine?fbclid=IwAR3MT8hMeLPuH6ghE_t7boe8apDayS_egsn6qNlbeco8ADUIXmALxsW4kvw

Annah Browning’s Witch Doctrine as Spiritual Handbook by Mary Ozbolt Sink your teeth into its side, search for another solar system, graze your teeth against its bones, let yourself lift beyond your territory, only to come shuddering back to familiar ground with a new layer in your mind’s kale

12/15/2020

Winter break is the perfect time to pick up a hefty classic to read with a furry friend. What are you planning on reading during the cold months? ❄️🌲

11/24/2020

We love to curl up with a good book on a gloomy day like today. Anyone else? ☕️

11/17/2020

Check out Akron Soul Train's virtual reading with Michael Credico, Nov. 19 at 7pm! Akron Soul Train is also looking for writers to apply for a compensated one-month residency-- more information at akronsoultrain.org.

11/15/2020

It’s a perfect day to curl up with some poems and hot coffee while the rain pours! Who is your favorite poet?

11/05/2020

The time has finally arrived - no not the holiday season. Submitting season.

This year, Rubbertop Review is turning out the lights. Bring us your stories of mystery, intrigue, thrill, excitement, dark humor, pleasure, or pain. Show us your sexy but not quite naughty. Tell the world about your loneliness, your companionship, your self-care. Take us into the macabre, rare oddities, or danger. Venture into the night with Rubbertop: After Dark.

We are now accepting submissions from November 5th to January 31, 2021. We are accepting submissions in Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, and Fiction. Additionally, this year we are accepting black and white photographs and noir-style artwork.

Submission guidelines and instructions can be found on Submittable.
https://rubbertopreview.submittable.com/Submit

07/06/2020

The first batch of print copies of the 11th issue of Rubbertop Review are finally being mailed to contributors after debating several options under the virus situation. We will hopefully have more copies and postage funds in the next few days to make sure every creative person involved gets at least one physical copy of the journal. The UA Dept of English students who got this edition across the 2020 finish line worked very hard!

Remember, you can read the new issue that includes a special "Creative Nonfiction: Quarantined" section reflecting on our current unique times for free by going to this page: https://www.uakron.edu/english/academics/get-involved/rubbertop-review.dot

Stay literary strong and spread some good words!

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05/17/2020

The new issue of Rubbertop Review is featured in today's Sunday Akron Beacon Journal. Big thanks to the newspaper for writing such praise!

You can read the article here:
https://www.beaconjournal.com/entertainment/20200514/ponies-guns-drugs-color-latest-in-thrilling-series?fbclid=IwAR0kwPGuzGXnCBKR3tIk4KcMboQBCCvQ9xJWahWWcWDCqNZ_ns_7vZ_JSvM

Remember, you can read the new issue for free online at this link:

Rubbertop Review:
https://www.uakron.edu/english/academics/get-involved/rubbertop-review.dot?fbclid=IwAR0AhCsEPeCzBbImnJOMQmqfTpd_wpv--DKkuU6bf4URAoQgkBsW5i0PQtU

05/04/2020

Attention literary enthusiasts! Our 2020 print edition of Rubbertop Review is still on its way! In light of the current situation of our world today, we hope you will enjoy the link here below to read the Spring 2020 issue in a digital format as we get through these unique times. Stay safe and healthy and happy reading!