Editing Guidelines

Please be incredibly careful and cordial when contacting students and other contacts as a representative of NTR. Double-check email addresses, titles of works, and acceptance/rejection statuses to avoid any conflict or accidental acceptance/rejection. These students are entrusting us with their personal work and spend years trying for publication, and simple accidents on our end cause a lot of upset and distrust in them and spoils our name as a reputable university press. 

General emails (signed by NTR, NTR Exec Team, NTR Prose Team, etc.) should remain as firm and professional as possible. Personalized emails should be more agreeable, positive/empathetic - all should reflect in relevant structure, wording, and punctuation.

Please use correct grammar, structure, spelling, and professionalism in any communications under NTR, and refer to the templates below for certain word usage, phrases, structure, and more.  

Anything bolded or blanked out should be replaced with accurate and up-to-date information.

Below are workshop sign-up links that can be edited minimally/kept up-to-date through the NTR Google Drive. Specific ranges are protected so these can be easily sent out to students without messing with our settings. 

As of now, official workshop sign-ups are only offered to UNT prose & poetry submissions, but editors from all genres are free to communicate with their accepted authors if they wish to work on a piece. 

Fiction: https://bit.ly/4fYi5bY (Alex, Ruby, Jackie)

Non-fiction: https://bit.ly/3CEy80u (Alex & Alejandro)

Poetry: http://bit.ly/493OPhK (Richie), https://bit.ly/3Z0woGr (Helen)

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Dear ________,

We appreciate your interest in publishing your work in the North Texas Review. Unfortunately, we are unable to move forward with publishing your work in our 2024-25 edition, and your piece “______” was not accepted for publication. This is not a reflection of the quality of your work, and we wish you luck with future submissions.

We will begin accepting submissions for our 2025-2026 publication during the Fall 2025 semester. If you’d like to participate, please keep an eye out for information on our official Instagram account:

https://www.instagram.com/northtexasreview/ . We hope you will consider submitting again in the future. 

Best,

NTR Exec Team

North Texas Review

Dear ________,

Thank you for your submission to the 2024-2025 edition of the North Texas Review. We are excited to inform you that your submission “________” has been selected for publication. Congratulations! We are honored to be able to showcase your talents. 

We do require each piece to go through a brief editing process before publication. Each UNT student author has the opportunity to sit down with their editors in person or via Zoom to go over edits, discuss any final changes, and receive feedback on their work. We will be holding a writer’s workshop to meet with your editor on December 3rd, 4th, and 5th in the UNT English Auditorium Building. To secure a timeslot, please use this link to fill out your information and please make note of the days, times, and room number. 

[insert genre sign up link]

Congratulations again on this amazing accomplishment, and please feel free to reach out with any questions.

Best,

NTR Exec Team

North Texas Review

Dear ________,

Thank you for your submission to the 2024-2025 edition of the North Texas Review. We are excited to inform you that your submission “________” has been selected for publication. Congratulations! We are honored to be able to showcase your talents. 

Please expect an email in the Spring 2025 semester regarding our annual reception and journal launch where your piece will be debuted, along with details of how to acquire a physical and digital copy of this year’s journal post-launch if you are unable to attend our reception.

Congratulations again on this amazing accomplishment, and please feel free to reach out with any questions.

Best,

NTR Exec Team

North Texas Review

Good morning, __________,

We hope you're having a wonderful semester so far! I'm Nafeesa Mohid, the editor-in-chief of the North Texas Review. We are excited to announce that your essay, “________", has been selected as the 1st place winner of NTR's Prose Foundations Prize!

As such, you are invited to attend UNT's Departmental Awards Ceremony where we present undergraduate, graduate, and faculty awards. This ceremony will be on Friday, April 19th, at 1pm in Gateway 034. You will be presented with your $500 Cengage certificate there! Congratulations!

Additionally, your essay will be published in this year's edition of the North Texas Review, debuted at our annual reception! You can pick up a copy of it there, or we can arrange something else if you are unable to attend. While the date is not yet set, it will take place sometime at the end of April and you will be notified once the date is set.

We do require each piece to go through a brief editing process before publication. I've cc'd our Copy Chief, _______, who is willing to meet with you for 10-20 minutes to talk about your piece. She is free to meet Monday (2/12) after 2pm or Thursday (2/15) after 5pm. Please reply to this email with which one works for you, or you're free to offer another time if neither do.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns, and thank you for your contribution to the English Department and NTR!

All my best,

Nafeesa Mohid

Editor-in-Chief | North Texas Review

College of Information in Data Science

2022 Traditional Terry Scholar

Good morning, ___________,

We hope you're having a wonderful semester so far! I'm Nafeesa Mohid, the editor-in-chief of the North Texas Review. We are excited to announce that your essay, “______________", has been selected as the 2nd place winner of NTR's Prose Foundations Prize!

As such, you are invited to attend UNT's Departmental Awards Ceremony where we present undergraduate, graduate, and faculty awards. This ceremony will be on Friday, April 19th, at 1pm in Gateway 034. You will be presented with your $250 Voertman's certificate there! Congratulations!

Additionally, your essay will receive an honorable mention at our annual reception for the North Texas Review! While the date is not yet set, it will take place sometime at the end of April and you will be notified once the date is set.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns, and thank you for your contribution to the English Department and NTR!

All my best,

Nafeesa Mohid

Editor-in-Chief | North Texas Review

College of Information in Data Science

2022 Traditional Terry Scholar