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Today's Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Literary Nonfiction. Check back tomorrow for a new list.
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The American Scholar

The American Scholar is the venerable but lively magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932. In recent years the magazine has won four National Magazine Awards, the industry’s highest honor, and many of its essays and articles have been selected for the yearly Best American anthologies…
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: History, Literature/Books, Science, Society/Culture.
Lengths: Article, Essay.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: Up to USD $500.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 62.2 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

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The Citron Review

The Citron Review started back in 2009 when a group of writers decided to create a literary venue that celebrates short literature. These writers had all graduated from the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Antioch University in Los Angeles, where they were collectively known as The Citrons. So they named the journal The Citron Review…
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Other.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 53.0 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

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The Ex-Puritan

The Ex-Puritan began in 2007 as The Puritan Literary Magazine, an independently funded print journal dedicated to publishing fiction, essays, and interviews in Ottawa, Ontario, and was sold in bookstores across the city. In its early years, The Puritan was Ottawa’s only quarterly prose journal. After a brief hiatus, the magazine returned to publishing, now in the form of an online magazine run from Toronto…
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Essay.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: CAD $100 per interview; $200 per essay; $100 per review.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 124.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.3% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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Hibiscus Magazine

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. 285.8 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

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In Short

In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction is an independent literary magazine for flash nonfiction at every length. We publish creative nonfiction of 1,000 words or fewer, micros of 400 words or fewer, and short-shorts of 100 words or fewer. By publishing short-form creative nonfiction, we aim to provide a platform for writers who lack the time and resources typically needed for publication…
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Memoir.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 44.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.9% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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Instant Noodles

VISION: To expand the opportunities available to authors by providing a digital platform to showcase short works of fiction/flash fiction, memoir, creative non-fiction, visual art, media art, and poetry. MISSION: To support creators in their publishing journey, whether they are new established by offering a quality place to be published that is free to submit to and free to read/view.
Topics: Other.
Lengths: Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 36.6 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 55.0% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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little somethings press Wildcard

little somethings press: a collection of small writings aims to highlight the growing wave of micro-literature from flash prose to micropoetry, while navigating the space between literary journals and zines.
Topics: Memoir, Other.
Lengths: Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: Unknown.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 66.0 days.

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The Masters Review New Voices

New Voices is open to any new and emerging author who has not published a work of fiction or narrative nonfiction of novel length. You must not have a novel forthcoming at the time of submission. New Voices are published online only and will feature a number of stories from new authors each month. Stories published in New Voices have been selected for The Best Small Fictions and Best of The Net anthologies…
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $100 for flash; $200 for longer works.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 61.2 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

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Redivider

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. 77.1 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

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Vast Chasm Magazine

Vast strives to be an engaged literary press that explores the expansive human experience and celebrates complex, diverse voices. Our mission is to publish bold work, champion distinct artists, and cultivate literary community.
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $50.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 100.6 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

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