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Brevity [1]

Basic Information

State:

Pennsylvania

Website:

https://brevitymag.com [2]

Country:

United States

Submission Guidelines:

https://brevitymag.com/submissions [3]

Address:

Brevity c/o Dinty W. Moore

Address (line 2):

128 Campbell Avenue

City:

Havertown

Zip / Postal Code:

19083

Contact Information

Dinty W.

Moore

Editor

Contact E-mail:

brevitymag@gmail.com [4]

Details

Formats:

Online

Payment:

Cash

Genres Published:

Creative Nonfiction

Charges Reading Fee:

Yes

Accepts Unsolicited Submissions:

Yes

Accepts Simultaneous Submissions:

Yes

Reading Period:

Sep 1 to May 1

Response Time:

Less than 3 months

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 They have also featured numerous previously unpublished authors and take a special joy in helping to launch a new literary career.

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 voice right away. The first paragraph of a brief essay will often accomplish what may take three pages in a book-length memoir.

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

Issues per Year:

Year Founded:

1997

Percentage of Unsolicited Submissions Published:

1% to 5%

Number of Debut Authors per Issue:

1-2

Greater than 10,000

Subgenres:

Autobiography/Memoir [5]

Experimental [6]

Narrative Nonfiction [7]

Nonfiction [8]