Nonfiction

Literary nonfiction of up to 5,000 words. Original work; first serial rights only. Please no academic papers or opinion pieces. PLEASE put your name and email address on your manuscript.

We seek pieces written with an attention toward masterful prose, abut subject that matter. Memoir must be about something bigger than pure reminiscence; we prefer essays that address big questions in the culture in which we write. We shy away from the purely political, the purely religious and the purely doctrinaire. We prize innovation and originality over the same old thing.    We do not look at previously published work unless in translation and noted as so.

We are not open to any submissions that use AI on any level. We will check for the presence of AI in any work we consider, and decline any submission that seems questionable.

We can take up to six months to reply, given the cycles of the work, but we'll usually get back to submitters much sooner than that.

We ask, if we send you an acceptance, to respond within 3 or 4 days. We are typically making offers with work next in line we won't want to lose if we are waiting on an acceptance. We can't be sure that an author a) hasn't already had the work accepted elsewhere, but didn't withdraw here; b) has so many submissions going they may not be keeping track, or c) has not been checking their email or looking on Submittable to check status. 

We do not look at previously published work unless in translation and noted as so (in with translations, the full legal permission of the author being translated).

And please: Put your name and contact info on the manuscript itself. We often work with paper submissions.