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Personal Narrative Nonfiction

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Black Fox Literary Magazine

Here at Black Fox, we publish both established and new writers. We welcome all fiction, but we especially like fiction from under-represented genres and styles.
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Memoir.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $20.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 45.2 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

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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.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 2.6 days.
Acceptances: Average. 10.1% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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IHRAM Press Literary Magazine Wildcard

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IHRAM Press provide the platform for creative activists at risk to speak up about urgent social-justice issues in their environments, providing readers with their unique perspectives on issues of human rights. IHRAM Press is a Pushcart-Prize, Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, and PEN nominating literary journal.
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Sexuality/Gender, Society/Culture, Other.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $50.

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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. 44.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.9% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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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.

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Off Assignment Fees

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-$500.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 80.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.6% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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Shenandoah

Shenandoah was founded in 1950 by a group of Washington and Lee University faculty members and undergraduates, Tom Wolfe among them. For a brief time it was primarily an undergraduate magazine, but under the leadership of student editor Tom Carter, Shenandoah became a quarterly, publishing a cast of international writers including e e cummings, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, James Merrill, Ezra Pound, William Faulkner, and Flannery O’Connor…
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Memoir, Other.
Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $80 per 1,000 words, with a max. of $400.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 93.5 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.9% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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SmokeLong Quarterly

We are dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web quarterly, whether written by widely published authors or those new to the craft. The term “smoke-long” comes anecdotally from the Chinese, who noted that reading a piece of flash takes about the same length of time as smoking a cigarette. SmokeLong Quarterly does not encourage smoking.
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Other.
Lengths: Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $100 per story; $150 per story with audio.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 6.4 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

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Southern Indiana Review Fees

The Southern Indiana Review presents a cross-section of emerging and established artists and writers whose work is both regional and national in scope and degree of recognition. With the support of the Indiana Arts Commission and National Endowment for the Arts, SIR is published by the University of Southern Indiana and sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts. The editors invite submissions of poetry, fiction, interviews, art work, photography, critical essays, and reviews.
Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Folklore/Mythology, History, Literature/Books, Memoir, Nature/Environment, Politics/Political Science, Religion/Spirituality, Science, Society/Culture.
Lengths: Interview, Review, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $125-$250.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 58.0 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction.

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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. 55.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.6% of nonfiction submissions accepted.

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