Smart Search List of the Day Personal 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 List of the Day below. Check back tomorrow for a new search. Read our Guide to Smart Search for more information about this feature. Instructions: Select at least one bolded (asterisk) option below and click Search. To include some lesser-known publishers, select "Include Wildcards." 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Results: 10 20 30 40 50 Fees: Include Fee-Based Submissions Pay: Paying Projects Only Include 'Unknown' Payscale Refinements: Include Wildcards Wildcards are listings that are lesser-known and don't have enough data yet for complete statistics. Exact Matches Only Sort By: Acceptance Pct (high to low) Acceptance Pct (low to high) Avg Response Time (low to high) Number of Submitters (reporting to Duotrope) Title Today's Smart Search List of the Day is: Personal Narrative Nonfiction. Check back tomorrow for a new list.Color Coding: Purple indicates a Wildcard, Green indicates a paying publication, and Blue is everything else. Blackbird For over two decades, Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts has been one of the web’s premiere literary magazines, earning accolades and attracting an expansive readership for its diverse range of award-winning and emerging writers. Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts is made possible with the work of undergraduate and graduate student interns and graduate teaching assistants from the VCU Department of English…Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Memoir.Lengths: Interview, Review, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $200 per essay; $100 per book review, craft essay, or interview.Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 92.0 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 3.9% of nonfiction submissions accepted. The Brooklyn Review Wildcard The Brooklyn Review was founded almost thirty years ago by Allen Ginsberg and John Ashbery and is run by the students of The Brooklyn College MFA Program of the City University of New York. In the past, it has published works by Wayne Koestenbaum, Mac Wellman, Young Jean Lee, and Ann Lauterbach, among others.Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Memoir, Society/Culture.Lengths: Interview, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 38.5 days. The Disappointed Housewife The Disappointed Housewife seeks fiction, essays, and poetry – along with unclassifiable writings, photos, and drawings – that stretch genre definitions, break the rules, challenge readers, and bend their brains, all while maintaining the highest levels of style and substance. We think that literature has to evolve, that it should keep up with the world around it even if it doesn’t reflect it so much as use it. Taunt it. Remold it, when required…Topics: Open to all/most topics.Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 3.1 days.Acceptances: Average. 9.1% of nonfiction submissions accepted. Grist Fees Founded in 2007 by graduate students in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Tennessee, Grist is a nationally distributed journal of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, and craft essays. Published annually every spring, each issue is accompanied by Grist Online, which features some of the best work we’ve received during our reading period…Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Literature/Books, Memoir.Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.Payment: Semi-pro. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $0.01/word, with a max. of $50.Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 143.4 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction. Narrative Magazine Fees Narrative is dedicated to advancing literature in the digital age by supporting the finest writing talent and encouraging reading across communities and generations, in schools, and around the globe. Our digital library of new literature by celebrated authors and by the best new and emerging writers is available for free. Since 2003 Narrative has been at the forefront of a new kind of library—a global meeting place, if you will, where readers and writers meet…Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Literature/Books, Memoir.Lengths: Interview, Article, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.Payment: Professional. Details: USD $250-$500 for 500 to 2,000 words; $500-$1,000 for over 2,000 words.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 46.1 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction. Narratively 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. 28.8 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction. Pithead Chapel 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.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 17.0 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 4.0% of nonfiction submissions accepted. Ploughshares Ploughshares’ mission is to champion innovative writing, elevate emerging and established voices, and spark new dialogues in local, national, and global communities. Founded by DeWitt Henry and Peter O’Malley, Ploughshares has published quality literature since 1971 and has been based at Emerson College in downtown Boston since 1989…Topics: Open to all/most topics, including: Memoir.Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $45 per printed page, with a $90 minimum and $450 maximum.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 47.1 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction. Sky Island Journal Fees Sky Island Journal is an independent, international, free-access literary journal; we discover and publish the finest poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction.Topics: Open to all/most topics.Lengths: Essay, Narrative Nonfiction.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 7.5 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in nonfiction. 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. 57.7 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 3.5% of nonfiction submissions accepted. Bulk Actions: Select all | Deselect all Jump to Top Add selected to Favorites Add selected to Ignore List (Ignored listings will be hidden from you across the site.) Cookie Consent: This site uses secure first-party cookies for essential, preference-setting, and statistical purposes. We do not use any marketing, advertising, or third-party cookies. Read our full cookie policy. Accept All Cookies Allow Essential Cookies Only