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The Common Fees

The Common is a literary organization whose mission is to deepen our individual and collective sense of place. Based at Amherst College, we aim to serve as a vibrant common space for the global exchange of ideas and experiences through three main areas of activity: publishing, public programming, and mentorship and education…
Topics: Place/Regions.
Lengths: Essay.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $200 per piece.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 187.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.3% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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Dishsoap Quarterly

a nerdy, uncool, earnest magazine that wouldn’t wait three days to call you if it got your number.
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 5.2 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.7% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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Indiana Review Fees

Indiana Review is a non-profit literary magazine published by the English Department at Indiana University Bloomington. We've been offering "carefully strange" literature since 1976.
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Other.
Lengths: Essay.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $5 per page, with $25 minimum.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 27.8 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.1% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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Little Old Lady Comedy

We're a group of little old ladies at heart who've traded gossiping on park benches for hunting down the internet's finest comedy. Every evening, we set aside our needlework to read submissions, though the truly hilarious ones leave us in stitches. We invite you to join our Little Old Ladyhood, where we trade endless scrolling for something more beautiful, perhaps even a little archaic: good comedic literature and cartoons…
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Article, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 12.9 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 27.3% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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Mount Hope Magazine Wildcard

Mount Hope has been published since 2012 out of the creative writing program at Roger Williams University. Each year, faculty-led undergraduate student editors read submissions, choose from them, and bring the work to publication. We're a small magazine that seeks to publish work we're proud of, which is firmly in a literary tradition, and which gives voice to both emerging and seasoned writers, from anywhere, in all forms, and from all perspectives…
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 97.3 days.

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New England Review

The mission of New England Review is to publish the most provoking and rewarding writing of our time from established and emerging writers across the globe. We are dedicated to inclusive excellence and believe writing that embraces “difficulty”—be it formal, conceptual, or linguistic—nurtures our democracy…
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Film/Television, Literature/Books, Music, Performing Arts, Visual Arts.
Lengths: Essay.
Payment: Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $20 per page, with a minimum of $50.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 78.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.3% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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New World Writing Quarterly

New World Writing began life as Mississippi Review Online, a personal Web site that the editor (who was then also editor of Mississippi Review, the print magazine) put online in 1995. On departing his editorship of MR, the editor invited those folks who worked on the online version of MR to join him in this new venture. New World Writing (as Mississippireview.com, and then BlipMagazine.net) was among the first and most popular literary magazines on the Web…
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Essay.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 2.7 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

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The Paris Review

Founded in Paris by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton in 1953, The Paris Review began with a simple editorial mission: “Dear reader,” William Styron wrote in a letter in the inaugural issue, “The Paris Review hopes to emphasize creative work—fiction and poetry—not to the exclusion of criticism, but with the aim in mind of merely removing criticism from the dominating place it holds in most literary magazines and putting it pretty much where it belongs, i.e…
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Essay.
Payment: Unknown.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 103.6 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

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The Sun Magazine

The Sun is an independent, ad-free magazine that for more than fifty years has used words and photographs to evoke the splendor and heartache of being human. Each monthly issue celebrates life, but not in a way that ignores its complexity. The personal essays, short stories, interviews, poetry, and photographs that appear in The Sun’s pages explore the challenges we face and the moments when we rise to meet them…
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Politics/Political Science, Society/Culture, Other.
Lengths: Interview, Essay.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $200 and up, based on page length.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 155.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.4% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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Y2K Quarterly

Y2K Quarterly is an independent literary magazine devoted to the glory days/nightmares that were the late 90's and early 2000's.
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Other.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 38.8 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 11.8% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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