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Color Coding: Purple indicates a Wildcard, Green indicates a paying publication, and Blue is everything else.

The Ex-Puritan

The Ex-Puritan began in 2007 as The Puritan Literary Magazine, an independently funded print journal dedicated to publishing fiction, essays, and interviews in Ottawa, Ontario, and was sold in bookstores across the city. In its early years, The Puritan was Ottawa’s only quarterly prose journal. After a brief hiatus, the magazine returned to publishing, now in the form of an online magazine run from Toronto…
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Essay.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: CAD $100 per interview; $200 per essay; $100 per review.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 124.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.3% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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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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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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MoonPark Review Wildcard

MoonPark Review is an online literary journal devoted to publishing compelling, imaginative short prose that breaks our hearts, haunts us, makes us laugh, or gives us hope. We love flash fiction, prose poems, and hybrid forms.
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 60.1 days.

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New Sinews Magazine Wildcard

looking for diverse voices & dynamic styles generally: striving to make unexpected juxtapositions especially: seeking writing that is historically keen
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.

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Vast Chasm Magazine

Vast strives to be an engaged literary press that explores the expansive human experience and celebrates complex, diverse voices. Our mission is to publish bold work, champion distinct artists, and cultivate literary community.
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $50.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 101.8 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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