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Paying Fee-Free Literary Narrative Nonfiction

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This Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Fee-Free Literary Narrative Nonfiction.

The Adroit Journal

The Adroit Journal has its eyes focused ahead, showcasing what its global staff of emerging writers sees as the future of poetry, prose, and art. Since inception, the journal has featured the voices of Kaveh Akbar, Fatimah Asghar, Jericho Brown, NoViolet Bulawayo, K-Ming Chang, Victoria Chang, Mark Doty, Rita Dove, Eve L. Ewing, Terrance Hayes, Dorianne Laux, Edith Pearlman, D. A. Powell, Justin Phillip Reed, Danez Smith, Ned Vizzini, Ocean Vuong, C Pam Zhang, and (many, many!) more…
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Interview, Review, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $100.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 44.6 days.
Acceptances: Average. 5.1% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

Baltimore Review

The Baltimore Review was founded by Barbara Westwood Diehl in 1996 as a literary journal publishing short stories and poems, with a mission to showcase the best writing from the Baltimore area and beyond. Our mission remains just that. However, in our online format, we can now bring that fine writing to the world's attention, more frequently, and at less cost. We can also explore new ways to bring the world of writers and writing to the reader's attention.
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $50.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 63.6 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

The Masters Review New Voices

New Voices is open to any new and emerging author who has not published a work of fiction or narrative nonfiction of novel length. You must not have a novel forthcoming at the time of submission. New Voices are published online only and will feature a number of stories from new authors each month. Stories published in New Voices have been selected for The Best Small Fictions and Best of The Net anthologies…
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $100 for flash; $200 for longer works.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 42.6 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

Narratively Wildcard

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. 28.5 days.

Ninth Letter Web Edition

Ninth Letter Web Edition is the online component of the print journal Ninth Letter and features original writing not available in our print journal [listed separately].
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Other.
Lengths: Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $75.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 47.0 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

Off Assignment

Off Assignment is a non-profit literary magazine with a penchant for journeys and a fascination with strangers. Born out of a desire to tell “the story behind the story," we’ve evolved from a journalists’ after-hour parlor to a home for literary essays about journeys, broadly defined.
Topics: Place/Regions, Travel, Other.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $100-300.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 47.0 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

The Offing: A Literary Magazine

The Offing is an online literary magazine publishing creative writing in all genres and art in all media. The Offing publishes work that challenges, experiments, provokes — work that pushes literary and artistic forms and conventions. The Offing is a place for new and emerging writers to test their voices, and for established writers to test their limits…
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Nature/Environment, Place/Regions, Science, Sexuality/Gender, Society/Culture, Other.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $25-$100.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 61.3 days.
Acceptances: Average. 4.6% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

Shooter Literary Magazine Wildcard

cover image for Shooter Literary Magazine

Shooter launched in January 2015 with the goal of supporting emerging writers of literary fiction, creative non-fiction, narrative journalism and poetry. Though based in the UK, Shooter publishes work in English by writers from anywhere in the world. The magazine publishes two print issues annually in winter and summer. One of Shooter’s founding principles is to compensate writers and artists for their work. Far too many magazines and literary journals pay their contributors nothing…
Topics: Other.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: GBP £25 per longer story; £5 if under 2,000 words.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 76.8 days.

Tableware Magazine [Big Table Press] Fledgling NEW! Wildcard

No description available.
Topics: Open to all/most topics.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $50.

Write City Ezine [Chicago Writers Association] Wildcard

Write City Ezine is published by the Chicago Writers Association. We welcome fiction, creative nonfiction and quality poetry.
Topics: Memoir.
Lengths: Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $50 for CWA members; $25 for non-members.

Smart Search List of the Day Paying Fee-Free Literary Narrative Nonfiction