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Smart Search List of the Day

Narrative Nonfiction

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The /tEmz/ Review

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The /tEmz/ Review is a literary journal based in London, Ontario that publishes fiction, poetry, and reviews. We focus on publishing work from a diverse range of emerging and established voices. Our goal is to reflect a wide variety of editorial perspectives and publish an eclectic mix of writing. Query first for reviews and interviews
Topics:   Open to all/most topics, including: Literature/Books.
Lengths:    Interview, Review, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: CAD $20.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 61.0 days.
Acceptances: Average. 10.0% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

Barely South Review

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We began as The Dominion Review, an annual student literary journal housed at Old Dominion University in 1983. In 2008, the journal relaunched under the name Barely South Review as an online biannual publication staffed by students of the MFA program. Our name refers to our unique location in the US, while highlighting the idiosyncratic blend of voices and histories that commingle here…
Topics:   Open to all/most topics, including: Other.
Lengths:   Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 49.2 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

The Citron Review

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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.

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.

In Short

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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.

Instant Noodles

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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.

Months to Years

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We strive to publish creative nonfiction (as well as poetry, photography and art) that explores the human experience as it relates to mortality. Why dedicate a journal to writing about death? Contemplating mortality – be it by a terminally ill patient, a hospice nurse, a bereaved person, a recovering cancer patient – sparks profound and compelling writing rich in insights about the human condition. It seems it is nearly impossible to contemplate dying without also reflecting on how to live well.
Topics:     Health/Medicine, Memoir, Psychology, Other.
Lengths:   Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 56.6 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

Short Reads

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Short Reads is a free literary magazine emailed every Wednesday morning featuring flash nonfiction. Each edition of Short Reads is a snack in your inbox, an invitation to take a little break but not to open yet another tab in your browser. The world throws a lot of information and noise at us, a lot of the time, and flash can be an antidote for that: a brief time-out that can take you out of yourself…
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $100 for original pieces; $25 for reprints.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 56.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.1% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

Soft Union  Wildcard

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We hold literature as artifact, whose meaning is influenced by its design and materials. Think of the first time you held holy writ. The coolness of the black leather, the solid, sheening block of pages, the way the whole thing moved in your grip like a fish. It was scripture before you opened it. Pitch first.
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths:     Interview, Review, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.

Superpresent Magazine

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The name Superpresent conveys multiple meanings. It could be something very much in the here and now, or something beyond the present state of being or thinking, or something surreal, or it could simply be a great and wonderful gift. In this sense, we seek to present poetry, essays, short stories, and visual arts that are compelling and in someway represent an aspect of the super present.
Topics:   Open to all/most topics, including: Other.
Lengths:   Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 30.2 days.
Acceptances: Average. 8.3% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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