The Big Ugly Review e-Zine GUIDELINES POETRY FICTION NONFICTION The Big Ugly Review showcases emerging and established writers, photographers, musicians and filmmakers. Each issue contains fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, original music and short films related to the issue's theme. The Big Ugly Review comes out twice a year. Please visit the submissions page and follow the guidelines. Note that each issue has a theme and submissions must relate to the theme in some way. Detailed guidelines (word counts, themes and deadlines) are on the submission guidelines page.