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Hibiscus is a literary and arts magazine with sweet and tangy content that warmly feeds the soul. We seek the sweetest poem or the tangiest essay. We seek authenticity and raw diction, quirky creativity, and literary chaos. We want beckoning art, and anything that seems too weird to submit anywhere. We honestly won’t know what we’ll like until we see it. So send us your weird, your best, your worst, and your in-betweens. We welcome all! Ultimately, we just want our souls fed.
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths:   Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 292.5 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

Rooted in the nation’s capital’s suburbs, Potomac Review is the antidote to the scripted republic that surrounds it. By taking on D.C.’s values of international inclusion, Potomac Review looks out into the world from its lush Potomac River basin, collecting and absorbing the world’s literary diversity. Potomac Review seeks literature from emerging as well as established writers around the globe to facilitate in the literary conversation.
Topics:   Open to all/most topics, including: Other.
Lengths: Essay.
Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies). Details: Free copies are only available to contributors in the US.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 110.6 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

Redivider is run by graduate students at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. We are passionate about creating space for both emerging and established authors and artists to showcase their work. The journal was founded in 1986, originally as the Beacon Street Review, and renamed as Redivider in 2004. We currently publish online twice per year, as well as a yearly Blurred Genre summer mini issue. We do not publish work from current Emerson College students, faculty, or staff…
Topics:   Open to all/most topics, including: Other.
Lengths:   Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: Average responder. 69.5 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

Dedicated to publishing fine fiction, non-fiction, plays, screenplays, poetry, literary cartoons, photography and art, The Southampton Review opens its pages to writers from across the globe whose work is compelling. Our pages are equally devoted to emerging and established writers and artists.
Topics:    Open to all/most topics, including: Literature/Books, Memoir.
Lengths:   Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: to Pays occasionally, unknown rates. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $100+.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 22.6 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

We designed this literary journal to welcome the self-willed writers who dare to break the mold. With so many varied options for writers around the world, The Writer's Workout wants this literary journal to inspire fresh ideas for pieces new and old with our chosen themes and tributes at the heart. We're excited to publish first-time writers, seasoned authors, and everything in between. WayWords welcomes everyone using words as a way forward.
Topics:   Society/Culture, Other.
Lengths:   Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 66.5 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 30.0% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

This journal takes its name from an old kenning. The ocean is the whale road. Whale road. Those words conjure an image of whales moving in patterns through the waters of the world. “Whale road” makes us re-see the ocean. Whale Road Review publishes poetry, flash fiction, and micro essays that don’t demand too much time up front, but somehow leave readers changed…
Topics:    Open to all/most topics, including: Education/Pedagogy, Literature/Books.
Lengths:    Interview, Review, Essay.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 28.2 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.7% of nonfiction submissions accepted.