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This Smart Search of the Day is: Personal Memoir.

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: 2.6 days.
Acceptances: 20.0% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

Chicago Quarterly Review Charges 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 (Provides free copy/copies) No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: 176.0 days.
Acceptances: None reported yet in nonfiction.

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: 10.6 days.
Acceptances: None reported yet in nonfiction.

The Lascaux Review

The Lascaux Review provides a showcase for emerging and established writers and artists. The Lascaux Review seeks fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction of literary quality.
Topics: Open to all/most Topics, including: Memoir.
Lengths: Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: Unknown payment Unknown.
Avg. Response: 6.0 days.
Acceptances: None reported yet in nonfiction.

The London Magazine Charges fees for some submissions Wildcard

The UK's oldest cultural journal featuring the best original poetry, short fiction, cultural reviews and literary essays since 1732. The London Magazine has been responsible for publishing some of the most significant literature in British history. Recent contributors include Christopher Reid, Helen Dunmore, John Sutherland, Michael Holroyd and Beryl Bainbridge, Michael Blackburn, Roddy Lumsden, Mario Petrucci, John Hartley Williams, George Szirtes, Martyn Crucefix and many more.…
Topics: Open to all/most Topics, including: Literature/Books, Memoir.
Lengths: Review, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: 51.8 days.

The Malahat Review

The Malahat Review, established in 1967, is among Canada’s leading literary journals. Published quarterly, it features contemporary Canadian and international works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction as well as reviews of recently published Canadian poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction. On occasion, it also publishes interviews, essays, and issues on a single theme or author.
Topics: Open to all/most Topics, including: History, Memoir, Society/Culture.
Lengths: Essay, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) (Provides free copy/copies) Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: CAD $70 per published page.
Avg. Response: 84.7 days.
Acceptances: None reported yet in nonfiction.

Memoir Magazine Charges fees for some submissions

We are proud to be humans and citizens of the world. It’s a broad category, we know. But life is broad and nobody gets out alive. That’s why we read memoir. Our goal is to cultivate our collective and individual capacity to recognize truth, while creating greater diversity and empathy, by flooding the world with stories that need to be told.…
Topics: Open to all/most Topics, including: Literature/Books, Memoir.
Lengths: Interview, Review, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: 97.7 days.
Acceptances: None reported yet in nonfiction.

The Normal School Charges Fees

The Normal School is an online journal featuring creative nonfiction, poetry, fiction, author interviews, and multimedia texts. The bi-annual print magazine finished in spring 2019, ending its 11-year run. We are nestled happily into California State University, Fresno like a comfy spore in a benign and mighty lung. We dig quirky, boundary-challenging, energetic prose and poetry with innovations in content, form, and focus, which isn’t actually as high-falutin’ as it sounds.…
Topics: Open to all/most Topics, including: Memoir, Other.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: 140.6 days.
Acceptances: 7.1% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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: 57.8 days.
Acceptances: 3.0% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

Sunspot Literary Journal Charges Fees

Sunspot Literary Journal was founded to cut through the blinding flashes. The publications present writing that is meaningful. Writing created by individuals who might not have a large social media following, but who still have something important to say. Here at Sunspot, we believe in the power of the written word. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry and art can speak truth to power with the power inherent in all human beings. Our mission is to amplify every voice.
Topics: Open to all/most Topics, including: Literature/Books, Memoir, Travel.
Lengths: Review, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: No monetary payment to Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Pays occasionally, up to Professional. Details: USD $10 Editor's Prize for digital edition; $35 Editor's Prize for print edition.
Avg. Response: 25.6 days.
Acceptances: None reported yet in nonfiction.