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Narrative Nonfiction

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Bending Genres

Bending Genres is committed to publishing the best fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction, and microreviews from dedicated writers. We seek CREATIVE NONFICTION that is experimental, gut-wrenching, terrifying, honest, breakneck speed, whooshing out, fabulous and secretive.
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 5.3 days.
Acceptances: Average. 7.7% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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BlinkerLit

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Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 5.8 days.
Acceptances: Average. 7.1% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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Boundby Poetry Journal Wildcard

Boundby was founded in 2022 at Warwick University, initially as a collective of poetry students with an aim to create an online zine to promote the writing of young and unpublished poets. Our team have now dispersed across Europe, working and studying in a range of fields, and as such our editorial purview has also broadened. We are a UK-based (and internationally-minded) online poetry magazine publishing the work of new and established poets…
Topics: Literature/Books.
Lengths: Review, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.

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Cagibi Journal Fees

Cagibi is invested in sharing the universal human experiences to be found in works of prose and poetry set within places unfamiliar to readers; thus, our expressed interest in international—or world—literature, and works in translation. Cagibi is versatile in its purpose and mission to readers and writers. The journal concerns literature in which character conflict, ultimately story, is tied to place. The retreats provide unique and stimulating place experience…
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Literature/Books, Memoir, Other.
Lengths: Interview, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction, Book Excerpt.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 136.1 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

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The Good Life Review

The Good Life Review is a literary journal committed to exploring the overlooked. Based out of Omaha, Nebraska—astride the oft unnoticed—we recognize that there are a myriad of voices that call the regions surrounding us home. Our mission is to lift up the strange, the daring, and the underrepresented to reveal complexities hidden in our heartland and beyond. We seek to elevate writing that takes risks and challenges perceptions; writing that lingers and haunts long after the last line.
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Place/Regions.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $60 for one piece; $75 for two pieces.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 60.6 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

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The Gravity of the Thing Wildcard

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The Gravity of the Thing is an independent publisher of defamiliarized creative writing. Our features have been anthologized in Best Small Fictions, noted in the Best American series, and finalists in the Shirley Jackson Awards, and we are the grateful recipient of grant funding from Oregon’s Regional Arts & Culture Council. Our ongoing goal is to publish work that defamiliarizes storytelling, writing that stranges in pursuit of a renewed sense of discovery.
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Narrative Nonfiction, Book Excerpt.
Payment: No monetary payment.

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The Maine Review Fees

The Maine Review (MeR) is a biannual online literary journal that publishes culturally significant and innovative writing by writers living in Maine, across the country, and around the world. Maine Review Publications is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to making contemporary literature accessible to readers and writers of all incomes. We cherish our Maine heritage, which values sustainability and stewardship of vital resources…
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $25 for 1,000 words or fewer; $50 for more than 1,000.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 121.4 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

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McSweeney's Internet Tendency

Daily humor almost every day since 1998.
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Lifestyle.
Lengths: Review, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: Unknown.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 6.8 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

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Painted Bride Quarterly Wildcard

Painted Bride Quarterly, established in Philadelphia in 1973, is one of the country’s longest running literary magazines. PBQ is a community-based, independent, non-profit literary magazine published quarterly online, making it accessible to a broad and diverse audience.
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Other.
Lengths: Review, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: Unknown.

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serious-lit Wildcard

serious-lit is a newly established lit mag that's looking to publish some of the rawest, strangest, and most heartbreaking literature out there. If you've got a great story that you've just been dying to submit to a prestigious mag... then you better send it there. This rag is not for polished work. It is for serious work that's here to tell the truth.
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Memoir.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.

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