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THE SIMPLE RULES
*We accept essays of 750 words or less. Nonfiction only. * Clear, concise, vivid prose -- memoir, journalism, or lyric all welcome. Memoir and narrative are best told with scenes and detail, not explanation, and even the personal essay form benefits from image and sensory language. *Bernard Cooper suggests that short nonfiction “requires an alertness to detail, a quickening of the senses, a focusing of the literary lens, so to speak, until one has magnified some small aspect of what it means to be human.” We agree. * No more than two submissions per author per calendar year. * Though we have occasionally paid a small honorarium in the past, most of the time we regretfully cannot. *If you are wondering, Do we only publish published authors? *Upon acceptance, we ask only one-time rights; all subsequent rights revert immediately to the author. How to submit: We ask that you cut-and-paste your brief essay into the body of an e-mail, single spaced. Please include a brief bio note before the essay and indicate your approximate word count. We are no longer asking for submissions in Microsoft Word. Send the essay to:
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SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED FOR THE SUMMER. We have already filled the remaining 2008 issues, and will begin accepting submissions again in September.
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