Smart Search List of the Day Literary Memoir Narrative Nonfiction 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 below. Read our Guide to Smart Search for more information about this feature.Note: These are the results of a previous Smart Search List of the Day. Today's Smart Search is Fee-Free Literary Poems. Instructions: Select at least one bolded (asterisk) option below and click Search. To include some lesser-known publishers, select "Include Wildcards." 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Results: 10 20 30 40 50 Fees: Include Fee-Based Submissions Pay: Paying Projects Only Include 'Unknown' Payscale Refinements: Include Wildcards Wildcards are listings that are lesser-known and don't have enough data yet for complete statistics. Exact Matches Only Sort By: Acceptance Pct (high to low) Acceptance Pct (low to high) Avg Response Time (low to high) Number of Submitters (reporting to Duotrope) Title Today's Smart Search List of the Day is: Literary Memoir Narrative Nonfiction. Check back tomorrow for a new list.Color Coding: Purple indicates a Wildcard, Green indicates a paying publication, and Blue is everything else. Action, Spectacle Wildcard Action, Spectacle is a magazine based in Louisville, KY and Brooklyn. The magazine exists at the intersection of the socio-political, the cultural, and the arts—a public space for discussion and engagement. We put a spectrum of voices in conversation dialogue online, and in print, and at public events, publishing art, comics, commentary, fiction, interviews, memoir, music, poetry, and reportage…Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Memoir.Lengths: Interview, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 31.3 days. Blackbird For over two decades, Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts has been one of the web’s premiere literary magazines, earning accolades and attracting an expansive readership for its diverse range of award-winning and emerging writers. Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts is made possible with the work of undergraduate and graduate student interns and graduate teaching assistants from the VCU Department of English…Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Memoir.Lengths: Interview, Review, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $200 per essay; $100 per book review, craft essay, or interview.Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 92.0 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 3.9% of nonfiction submissions accepted. Chicago Quarterly Review Fees Chicago Quarterly Review was founded in 1995 in order to publish both emerging and established writers and, by doing so, encourage them in the development of their craft. By publishing the finest short stories, poems, photographs, and essays we hope to provide readers with work that stimulates, entertains, and inspires.Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Memoir.Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 160.2 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 3.3% of nonfiction submissions accepted. Grist Fees Founded in 2007 by graduate students in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Tennessee, Grist is a nationally distributed journal of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, and craft essays. Published annually every spring, each issue is accompanied by Grist Online, which features some of the best work we’ve received during our reading period…Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Literature/Books, Memoir.Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.Payment: Semi-pro. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $0.01/word, with a max. of $50.Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 149.7 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction. 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. 45.7 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 3.0% of nonfiction submissions accepted. 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. Narrative Magazine Story Contest Fees OUR [seasonal] CONTEST is open to all fiction and nonfiction writers. We’re looking for short shorts, short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction. As always, we are looking for works with a strong narrative drive, with characters we can respond to as human beings, and with effects of language, situation, and insight that are intense and total…Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Memoir.Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: USD $2,500 for first prize.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 44.1 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction. Narratively Once upon a time, Narratively founders Noah Rosenberg and Brendan Spiegel had grown frustrated by their day jobs in big journalism. They were tired of hearing that their passion projects were too “quirky,” “complex,” or “in-depth,” for mainstream media. So they did something about it…Topics: Memoir, Other.Lengths: Narrative Nonfiction.Payment: Unknown.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 27.6 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction. Ploughshares Ploughshares’ mission is to champion innovative writing, elevate emerging and established voices, and spark new dialogues in local, national, and global communities. Founded by DeWitt Henry and Peter O’Malley, Ploughshares has published quality literature since 1971 and has been based at Emerson College in downtown Boston since 1989…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: Faster than average responder. 45.7 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction. Under the Gum Tree Fees Under the Gum Tree is an independent and reader-supported literary arts micro-magazine. Because we strive for authentic connections through vulnerability, we exclusively publish creative nonfiction and visual art. We believe in the power of sharing a story without shame. Too much of the human experience gets hidden behind constructed facades based on what we perceive the world expects from us. Stop hiding. Live a story. Tell it without shame…Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Children/Family, Film/Television, Lifestyle, Memoir, Music.Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).Avg. Response: Average responder. 57.7 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 3.5% of nonfiction submissions accepted. Bulk Actions: Select all | Deselect all Jump to Top Add selected to Favorites Add selected to Ignore List (Ignored listings will be hidden from you across the site.) 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