Brevity

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Website:

https://brevitymag.com

Genres Published:

Creative Nonfiction

Subgenres:

Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction

Representative Authors:

Abigail Thomas, Lia Purpura, Roxane Gay, Diane Seuss, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Steven Barthelme, Ander Monson, Caitlin Horrocks, Brenda Miller, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Lee Martin, Rebecca McClanahan, Abby Frucht, Barbara Hurd, Bret Lott, Ira Sukrungruang, Rigoberto González, Judith Kitchen, Michael Martone, Jenny Boully

Formats:

Online

Submission Guidelines:

https://brevitymag.com/submissions

Reading Period:

Sep 1 to May 1

Response Time:

Less than 3 months

Charges Reading Fee:

Yes

Accepts Unsolicited Submissions:

Yes

Accepts Simultaneous Submissions:

Yes

Number of Debut Authors per Issue:

1-2

Payment:

Cash

Issues per Year:

Circulation:

Greater than 10,000

Editorial Focus

Brevity publishes well-known and emerging writers working in the extremely brief (750 words or less) essay form. They have featured work from Pulitzer prize winners and finalists, many NEA fellows, Pushcart winners, Best American authors, and writers from India, Egypt, Ireland, Spain, Malaysia, Qatar, and Japan. They have also featured numerous previously unpublished authors and take a special joy in helping to launch a new literary career.

Tips From the Editor

Everything is dialed up in a shorter piece. You need to move in and out of scene quickly, you need to introduce language, diction, and rhythm immediately, and you need to establish place, character, and often voice right away. The first paragraph of a brief essay has to do what the first chapter of a memoir does.

Contact Information

Dinty W. Moore, Editor

Brevity c/o Dinty W. Moore

128 Campbell Avenue

Havertown

19083

brevitymag@gmail.com

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Last updated: Jul 24, 2024

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