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Essays

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Fahmidan Journal

Founded in the Summer of 2020 by Ranna Kisswani & A.R. Arthur (formerly A.R. Salandy), Fahmidan Journal hopes to bring out diverse voices and their cacophonous words. Send us your thought-provoking existentialism, your phobias, your darkest moments. Entrance us with your whimsical fantasy. Move us to tears with your truth in a world of suffering. Captivate and intrigue us with your hopes and dreams.
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Other.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $35.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 8.2 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

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Gulf Coast Fees

Since 1986, Gulf Coast has made a mission of publishing up-and-coming poets, essayists, and fiction-writers from around the world alongside the bigger names of today. We feature writers of all styles and aesthetics, but potential contributors are urged to pick up a copy to judge for themselves.
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Essay.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $50 per page.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 137.8 days.
Acceptances: Average. 7.1% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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Humane HR Magazine Wildcard

What if the workplace could be more than just a place to earn a living? What if it could be a place to grow, to belong, to thrive? At Humane HR Magazine, part of HR for Humans at Work, we explore the human side of business—because, as Maya Angelou said, “People will forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” And that’s just as true at work as anywhere else. Our stories look into what really matters in the modern workplace: empathy, equity, purpose, and people…
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Business/Finance, Other.
Lengths: Review, Article, Essay.
Payment: No monetary payment.

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Lake Effect

Lake Effect is a publication of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. Lake Effect is looking for well-crafted and lively literary or personal essays. We are not looking for literary criticism, but essays that engage literature in the context of a lived life are certainly welcome.
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Literature/Books, Memoir.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 9.4 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

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Larina's Lit Lounge

A casual newsletter for readers and writers of poetry and fiction, especially in the speculative realm. Each issue of Larina’s Lit Lounge has a writing prompt. All submissions should address the writing prompt in some way, though the connection may be slight.
Topics: Other.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $20.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 3.7 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 20.0% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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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 le Meaux

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. 23.7% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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Southern Indiana Review Fees

The Southern Indiana Review presents a cross-section of emerging and established artists and writers whose work is both regional and national in scope and degree of recognition. With the support of the Indiana Arts Commission and National Endowment for the Arts, SIR is published by the University of Southern Indiana and sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts. The editors invite submissions of poetry, fiction, interviews, art work, photography, critical essays, and reviews.
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Folklore/Mythology, History, Literature/Books, Memoir, Nature/Environment, Politics/Political Science, Religion/Spirituality, Science, Society/Culture.
Lengths: Interview, Review, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $125-$250.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 58.0 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

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West Branch

West Branch is a magazine of poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews. Founded in 1977 and housed at the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts at Bucknell University, West Branch publishes a fall, winter, and spring/summer issue each year.
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Essay.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.10/word, max. $200.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 31.7 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.9% 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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