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Today's Smart Search of the Day is: Memoir. Check back tomorrow for a new list.

Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction Charges Fees

For more than two decades, Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction has published well-known and emerging writers working in the brief essay form, along with craft essays and book reviews.…
Topics: Open to all/most Topics, including: Literature/Books, Memoir.
Lengths: Essay.
Payment: Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Professional. Details: USD $45.
Avg. Response: 50.0 days.
Acceptances: 0.7% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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 No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: 3.1 days.
Acceptances: 17.8% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

Five Minutes

Five Minutes explores five minutes of a life in one hundred words.
Topics: Memoir.
Lengths: Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: 54.1 days.
Acceptances: 32.4% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

Fourth Genre Charges Fees

Publishing the best in literary nonfiction since 1999. Here at Fourth Genre, we’re devoted to publishing notable, innovative work in nonfiction. We curate works across the full spectrum of the genre. Given the genre’s flexibility and expansiveness, we welcome a variety of works ranging from personal essays and memoirs to literary journalism and personal criticism.…
Topics: Open to all/most Topics, including: Lifestyle, Literature/Books, Memoir, Nature/Environment, Travel.
Lengths: Review, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: Token payment (under 1 US cent per word) to Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) (Provides free copy/copies) Token to Semi-pro. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $50.
Avg. Response: 61.0 days.
Acceptances: 6.4% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

Hippocampus Magazine Charges fees for some submissions

Hippocampus Magazine is an exclusively online publication set out to entertain, educate and engage writers and readers of creative nonfiction. Each issue features memoir excerpts, personal essays, reviews, interviews and craft articles.
Topics: Open to all/most Topics, including: Memoir.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction, Book Excerpt.
Payment: Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) to Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $40.
Avg. Response: 103.7 days.
Acceptances: 3.6% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

Lake Effect: An International Literary Journal

Lake Effect is a publication of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
Topics: Open to all/most Topics, including: Literature/Books, Memoir.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment (Provides free copy/copies) No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: 14.4 days.
Acceptances: None reported yet in nonfiction.

Lowestoft Chronicle

Founded in September, 2009, Lowestoft Chronicle is an online literary magazine accepting flash fiction, short stories, poetry, and creative non-fiction. Preference is given to humorous submissions with an emphasis on travel. Our mission is to form a global “think tank” of inquisitive, worldly scribblers, collectively striving towards excellence and, if possible, world domination.
Topics: Open to all/most Topics, including: Memoir, Travel.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: 61.0 days.
Acceptances: 20.0% 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 No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: 12.9 days.
Acceptances: 5.6% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

Regal House Publishing Charges Fees Wildcard

We are governed by our imperative to support and sustain the literary efforts of the authors we work with. With this in mind we take on few new clients a year, but are always interested in discovering new talent within the genre of literary fiction, contemporary fiction, historical fiction, memoirs, short story collections, and poetry. Unlike many publishing houses we accept manuscripts directly from the authors, without requiring an intervening literary agent.…
Topics: Open to all/most Topics, including: Memoir.
Lengths: Book.
Payment: Unknown advance + Unknown royalties Unknown advance. Unknown royalties.

River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative Charges Fees

River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative was co-founded in 1999 by Joe Mackall and Dan Lehman, professors at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio. The journal is recognized as a national leader in publishing quality essays, memoir, and literary journalism. In 2019, River Teeth moved its primary location to Ball State University.
Topics: Open to all/most Topics, including: Literature/Books, Memoir.
Lengths: Review, Article, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment (Provides free copy/copies) No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: 63.6 days.
Acceptances: 3.0% of nonfiction submissions accepted.