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Smart Search List of the Day

Literary 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 Experimental Poetry.
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The /tEmz/ Review

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The /tEmz/ Review is a literary journal based in London, Ontario that publishes fiction, poetry, and reviews. We focus on publishing work from a diverse range of emerging and established voices. Our goal is to reflect a wide variety of editorial perspectives and publish an eclectic mix of writing. Query first for reviews and interviews
Topics:   Open to all/most topics, including: Literature/Books.
Lengths:    Interview, Review, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: CAD $20.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 61.0 days.
Acceptances: Average. 10.0% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

Aquifer

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In 2017, we added a new literary supplement, Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, which features new work on a biweekly basis, along with author interviews, book reviews, and graphic narratives.
Topics:   Open to all/most topics, including: Literature/Books.
Lengths:   Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 33.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.6% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

BlinkerLit

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Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths:   Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 5.9 days.
Acceptances: Average. 8.0% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

The Citron Review

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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, including: Other.
Lengths:   Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 53.0 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

Clockhouse  Wildcard

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Clockhouse is a national literary journal published annually by Clockhouse Writers' Conference, whose editors are MFA alumni of Goddard College. Clockhouse features poetry, prose and creative nonfiction from established and emerging writers around the world. All memoir and creative non-fiction in traditional and experimental literary styles. No academic or scientific essays.
Topics:   Open to all/most topics, including: Memoir.
Lengths:   Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).

HOOT  Wildcard

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HOOT is a postcard. A very nice-looking one. With writing on it! It is also a little more complicated than that. It is also: a brief, displayable, shareable literary magazine. The idea is: to have stories and poems on a postcard, so that they can be displayed and shared easily. Stick it on the fridge! Tuck it in your husband’s/wife’s briefcase or nephew’s bookbag! for people to have a literary magazine that they can both afford to subscribe to and have time to read…
Topics:    Open to all/most topics, including: Literature/Books, Memoir.
Lengths:    Review, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: Unknown.

The Idaho Review  Wildcard

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The Idaho Review seeks to share evocative, beautifully strange work. We publish an annual print issue of exceptional fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from established and emerging writers alike. Work from the Idaho Review has received the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry Award, and has been included in the Best American Short Stories anthology.
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: Unknown. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 91.5 days.

January House Literary Journal

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January House is a meeting place for diverse expressions, urgent conversations, and the ever-evolving landscapes of contemporary literature and art. We invite you to join us in shaping a publication that honors both craft and curiosity, rooted in a belief that storytelling, in all its forms, matters.
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths:   Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 2.8 days.
Acceptances: Average. 10.3% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

Redivider

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Redivider is run by graduate students at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. We are passionate about creating space for both emerging and established authors and artists to showcase their work. The journal was founded in 1986, originally as the Beacon Street Review, and renamed as Redivider in 2004. We currently publish online twice per year, as well as a yearly Blurred Genre summer mini issue. We do not publish work from current Emerson College students, faculty, or staff…
Topics:   Open to all/most topics, including: Other.
Lengths:   Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: Average responder. 75.0 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

Star 82 Review

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Star 82 Review is an art and literature, online and print magazine that highlights words and images in gemlike forms. Each issue features flash fiction, creative nonfiction, erasure texts, narrative art, postcard lit and poetic storytelling featuring subtle humor, humility and humanity, the strange and the familiar, and a home for the displaced person. Star 82 is the code needed to unblock one's phone number. Tell us who you are. Someone will answer.
Topics:   Open to all/most topics, including: Visual Arts.
Lengths:   Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 3.8 days.
Acceptances: Average. 7.1% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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