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"Has published well-known and emerging writers working in the extremely brief essay form, along with craft essays. "

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Introduction

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
Eight weeks / 42 days
Average acceptance rate
2% / 4.76%

Types of Submissions Accepted

1 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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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 genre icon

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 🏗️

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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

Contributors on Chill Subs

Diane Zinna avatarHayli May Cox avatar
2 pieces