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Broad Ripple Review

Broad Ripple Review is an independent literary magazine publishing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. We seek writing that is finely crafted and deeply felt, work that balances narrative movement with interior complexity and language shaped with intention and care. We are a selective journal, guided not by exclusivity but by care…
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Literature/Books.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: Unknown.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 22.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.0% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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The Georgia Review

The Georgia Review is the literary-cultural journal published out of the University of Georgia since 1947. While it began with a regional commitment, its scope has grown to include readers and writers throughout the U.S. and the world, who are brought together through the print journal as well as live programming…
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Literature/Books.
Lengths: Review, Essay.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $50 per printed page, up to $800.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 259.7 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.4% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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GONZOID Wildcard

GONZOID is an online space for original fiction, poetry, and local gonzo journalism. We particularly welcome work from writers based in the Baltimore-DC area.
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Place/Regions.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.

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Literary Mama

Literary Mama publishes work that honors the journey and the job of mothering. For over two decades, we have sought to explore and interrogate the physical, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual experiences of motherhood. We celebrate an inclusive understanding of motherhood as experienced through diverse lenses and bodies and welcome perspectives that challenge readers’ assumptions and values about motherhood…
Topics: Children/Family, Literature/Books, Other.
Lengths: Interview, Review, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 13.5 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 13.3% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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moocat.net

We want creative content mostly from not-yet-famous writers, poets, artists, cartoonists, and comedians. If a person happens to get famous, they can be forgiven for that.
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Travel, Visual Arts, Other.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Royalties. Details: USD $10, plus a share of "tip jar" payments (see their site for details).
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 3.3 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 23.1% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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The Southern Review Fees

The Southern Review is one of the nation’s premier literary journals. Hailed by Time as "superior to any other journal in the English language," we have made literary history since our founding in 1935. The Southern Review strives to discover and promote a diverse array of engaging, relevant, and challenging literature—including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation from literary luminaries as well as the best established and emerging writers…
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Essay.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $75 for first printed page, with $25 for each subsequent page, up to a max. of $300.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 251.8 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.3% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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Tolka

Tolka is a biannual literary journal of non-fiction: publishing essays, reportage, travel writing, auto-fiction, individual stories and the writing that flows in between. Tolka publishes work that is formally promiscuous and which does not always fall into neat categories. We encourage writers to test the creative boundaries of non-fiction. The Tolka river, from which we derive our name, comes from the Irish tolga: to overflow or to flood…
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Memoir, Travel.
Lengths: Article, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: EUR €500.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 99.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.9% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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trampset

A literary journal for the tramps, trampset publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. We welcome diverse voices, including writers working outside academia. We welcome all tramps.
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $30.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 2.8 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.5% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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Willows Wept Review

Willows Wept Review is a literary journal that publishes writing that explores, celebrates, interrogates, and/or problematizes the relationship between human beings and the natural world. WWR has featured poetry, creative nonfiction, and short fiction by Richard Garcia, Christopher Kennedy, William Doreski, Shane Jones, Kim Chinquee, J. C. Hallman, Donora Hillard, Darby Larson, Scott Owens, Sasha Fletcher, and many others.
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Nature/Environment.
Lengths: Essay.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 47.2 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.5% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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The Yale Review Fees

Join a conversation 200 years in the making. At The Yale Review, we believe in the power of connecting great minds across disciplines, backgrounds, and generations. As a renowned journal of literature and ideas, TYR has been privileged to publish both established names and rising literary talent, including Virginia Woolf, Robert Lowell, Thomas Mann, Bayard Rustin, Louise Glück, Adrienne Rich, José Ortega y Gassett, Joyce Carol Oates, James Merrill, Cathy Park Hong, Sheila Heti, Garth…
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Review, Essay.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $500-$1,500 for print publication; $200-$500 for online publicaiton.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 53.7 days.
Acceptances: Average. 7.7% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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