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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 They have also featured numerous previously unpublished authors and take a special joy in helping to launch a new literary career.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: 
3
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]

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/literary_magazines/brevity

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/literary_magazines/brevity [2] https://brevitymag.com [3] https://brevitymag.com/submissions [4] mailto:brevitymag@gmail.com [5] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/autobiographymemoir [6] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/experimental [7] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/narrative_nonfiction [8] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/nonfiction