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bioStories

bioStories offers word portraits of the people surrounding us in our daily lives, of the strangers we pass on the street unnoticed and those intimate to us who have been most influential and most familiar but who remain strangers to others. We feature essays from an eclectic variety of writers…
Topics: History, Memoir.
Lengths: Essay.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 33.9 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 20.0% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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Bright Flash Literary Review

Bright Flash Literary Review is a home for flash and short fiction. We’re here to provide a space for all voices, the heard and unheard. There is nothing more beautiful than a perfect collection of words.
Topics: Memoir.
Lengths: Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 2.6 days.
Acceptances: Average. 10.1% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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Five Minutes

Five Minutes explores five minutes of a life in one hundred words.
Topics: Memoir.
Lengths: Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 51.8 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 52.2% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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In Short

In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction is an independent literary magazine for flash nonfiction at every length. We publish creative nonfiction of 1,000 words or fewer, micros of 400 words or fewer, and short-shorts of 100 words or fewer. By publishing short-form creative nonfiction, we aim to provide a platform for writers who lack the time and resources typically needed for publication…
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Memoir.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 44.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.9% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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The Iowa Review

Founded in 1970 and edited by faculty, students, and staff from the renowned writing and literature programs at the University of Iowa, The Iowa Review takes advantage of this rich environment for literary collaboration to create a worldwide conversation among those who read and write contemporary literature. We publish a wide range of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, translations, photography, and work in emerging forms by both established and emerging writers…
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Literature/Books, Memoir, Other.
Lengths: Review, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.08/word; $100 minimum.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 124.5 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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The Manifest-Station

The Manifest-Station was created by Jennifer Pastiloff as a place where people could come to have hard conversations about being human. Over the years it has evolved into a literary blog that is a safe space for words.
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Other.
Lengths: Interview, Essay.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 72.1 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 33.3% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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Months to Years

We strive to publish creative nonfiction (as well as poetry, photography and art) that explores the human experience as it relates to mortality. Why dedicate a journal to writing about death? Contemplating mortality – be it by a terminally ill patient, a hospice nurse, a bereaved person, a recovering cancer patient – sparks profound and compelling writing rich in insights about the human condition. It seems it is nearly impossible to contemplate dying without also reflecting on how to live well.
Topics: Health/Medicine, Memoir, Psychology, Other.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 56.6 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

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Shenandoah

Shenandoah was founded in 1950 by a group of Washington and Lee University faculty members and undergraduates, Tom Wolfe among them. For a brief time it was primarily an undergraduate magazine, but under the leadership of student editor Tom Carter, Shenandoah became a quarterly, publishing a cast of international writers including e e cummings, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, James Merrill, Ezra Pound, William Faulkner, and Flannery O’Connor…
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Memoir, Other.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $80 per 1,000 words, with a max. of $400.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 93.5 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.9% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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Unsolicited Press Wildcard

Unsolicited Press is small press located in Portland, Oregon. We focus on literary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Health/Medicine, Lifestyle, Literature/Books, Memoir, Science.
Lengths: Nonfiction Collection, Book.
Payment: + No advance. Unknown royalties.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 19.3 days.

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