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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. Though still committed to the mission of publishing new and emerging writers, Brevity has been fortunate over the years to include the work of Pulitzer prize winners, NEA fellows, Pushcart winners, Best American authors, and writers from India, Egypt, Ireland, Spain, Malaysia, The Netherlands, and Japan. Authors published in Brevity include Diane Seuss, Roxane Gay, Ander Monson, Caitlin Horrocks, Daisy Hernandez, Jennifer Percy, Brenda Miller, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Abigail Thomas, Lia Purpura, Heather Sellers, Matthew Gavin Frank, Lee Martin, and Jenny Boully.
Vibe
Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok
Response Time
Average acceptance rate
Types of Submissions Accepted
Nonfiction
For Craft Essays, contact our Craft Editor Julie Riddle at brevitymag+craft (insert @ symbol) gmail.com with either a brief description of your idea or the finished essay. Submissions should be 1,200 words or less and formatted as seen in our Craft Section (single space, no indentation, space between paragraphs). This category is limited to essays that discuss the craft of writing, such as essays that focus on structure, or editing, or ethics.
Flash rules
Max words: 750
Nonfiction
For Craft Essays, contact our Craft Editor Julie Riddle at brevitymag+craft (insert @ symbol) gmail.com with either a brief description of your idea or the finished essay. Submissions should be 1,200 words or less and formatted as seen in our Craft Section (single space, no indentation, space between paragraphs). This category is limited to essays that discuss the craft of writing, such as essays that focus on structure, or editing, or ethics.
Flash rules
Max words: 750
Need to know for submitting
Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox
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Details
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How to submit 🏗️
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Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️
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Awards
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Demographics & Eligibility
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Formatting requirements 🏗️
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Rights for published work 🏗️
Magazine
Founded in 1997 | United States
Masthead
We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)
Dinty W. Moore
Editor-in-Chief
Zoë Bossiere
Managing Editor
Taylor Grothe
Assistant Managing Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)
Total tracked
82
Average acceptance rate
4.76%
Average response time
42 days
Average acceptance/rejection time
34/45 days
Fastest response time
22 days
Slowest response time
68 days
Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 544 days
