Smart Search List of the Day Smart Search List of the Day Fee-Free Essays Members' Area: You are not logged in. You need to log in to have full access to this feature. Sign up if you haven't already. All new accounts start with a free trial. Smart Search is one of several search options for our members. It enables you to search for publishers and agents using the most common options and provides a short list of results that's curated and updated daily. This helps you find that gold nugget in the stream with as little effort as possible. Although you aren't a member yet, we are giving you a free preview of our Smart Search List of the Day below. Check back tomorrow for a new search. Read our Guide to Smart Search for more information about this feature. This Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Essays.Color Coding: Purple indicates a Wildcard, Green indicates a paying publication, and Blue is everything else. The Brevity Blog: Essays exploring craft and the writing life While Brevity (the magazine) publishes the finest examples of flash nonfiction we can find, the Brevity Blog is the place to discuss the business of writing, editing, and publishing, the writing life, career and inspiration, the ongoing struggle to believe in our writing, favorite books (including classics) and favorite essays, conference panels, etcetera.Topics: Literature/Books.Lengths: Interview, Review, Article, Essay.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 11.3 days.Acceptances: Approachable. 54.6% of nonfiction submissions accepted. 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.Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 30.6 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 3.3% of nonfiction submissions accepted. CRAFT Established in 2017 as a literary magazine for fiction, CRAFT expanded in 2020 to publish creative nonfiction as well. We explore how writing works, reading pieces with a focus on the elements of craft, on the art of prose. We feature previously unpublished creative work, with occasional reprints, as well as critical pieces including craft essays and interviews. All published creative pieces include an author’s note and an editorial introduction that both discuss stylistics in the work…Topics: Literature/Books.Lengths: Interview, Review, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $100 for flash; $200 for longer works; no payment for reprints.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 18.3 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 1.8% of nonfiction submissions accepted. Dorothy Parker's Ashes Brazen words by witty dames. Everything true. More or less.Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Other.Lengths: Essay.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Average responder. 83.4 days.Acceptances: Average. 5.0% of nonfiction submissions accepted. The Missouri Review The Missouri Review, founded in 1978, is one of the most highly regarded literary magazines in the United States. For the past four decades we’ve upheld a reputation for finding and publishing the very best writers first. We are based at the University of Missouri and publish four issues each year. Each issue contains approximately five new stories, three new poetry features, and two essays, all selected from unsolicited submissions sent by writers throughout the world.Topics: Open to all/most topics.Lengths: Essay, Book Excerpt.Payment: Professional. Details: USD $25 per page.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 43.5 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 1.9% of nonfiction submissions accepted. On The Seawall Wildcard On The Seawall is a community gallery for new writing and commentary during a time of emergency. (There always is, and there always has been, an emergency.) We think of On The Seawall as a “gallery” — a location in the neighborhood, a place where we display our work for our community, where everyone is welcome to create and to witness the work. We are living in a time of emergency during which our art may act as performances of intervention and refuge…Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Society/Culture.Lengths: Review, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.Payment: Unknown.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 14.3 days. Past Ten Tell us a story about where you were ten years ago on a specific date. For your reflection, try to recall what you were doing at the time, focusing on emotion and sensory details. How did you feel about yourself and your life at the time? In that moment, could you have imagined yourself ten years later? Presently, are you where you thought you would be? Tell us a story that conveys how you feel now about the person you were then.Topics: Other.Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 11.1 days.Acceptances: Approachable. 66.7% of nonfiction submissions accepted. Pithead Chapel: an online literary journal Pithead Chapel is an independent and volunteer-run literary journal and small press founded in 2012 in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. We publish art, fiction, nonfiction, and prose poetry online every month by emerging and established artists. At Pithead Chapel, we’re looking for engaging art, fiction, nonfiction, and prose poetry. Most of all, we want your work to make us feel something. We want to reach the last word and immediately crave more. We want your work to leave a brilliant bruise…Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Memoir.Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 14.4 days.Acceptances: Average. 4.2% of nonfiction submissions accepted. Ploughshares The literary journal is published four times a year: blended poetry and prose issues in the Winter and Spring, a prose issue in the Summer, and a special longform prose issue in the Fall. Since 1989, we have been based at Emerson College in downtown Boston.Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Memoir.Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $45 per printed page, with a $90 minimum and $450 maximum.Avg. Response: Average responder. 50.7 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction. Still Point Arts Quarterly Still Point Arts Quarterly is a beautifully-designed publication of words and images focused on art, nature, and spirit. Each issue includes portfolios of contemporary artists as well as articles, essays, fiction, and poetry. Featured artists have included painters, photographers, and mixed-media artists from around the world; featured writers have included novelists, frequent contributors to literary journals, nominees for the Pushcart Prize, and chapbook poets…Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Nature/Environment, Religion/Spirituality, Visual Arts, Other.Lengths: Essay.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Average responder. 67.7 days.Acceptances: Approachable. 23.9% of nonfiction submissions accepted.