Brevity publishes well-known and emerging writers working in the extremely brief (750 words or fewer) essay form. We have featured work from Pulitzer prize winners, NEA fellows, Pushcart winners, Best American authors, and writers from India, Egypt, Ireland, Spain, Malaysia, Qatar, and Japan. We have also featured  many previously-unpublished authors, and take a special joy in helping to launch a new literary career. Over the past year Brevity has averaged more than 10,000 unique visitors per month.

Authors are paid a $45 honorarium for featured essays.  

If you would like to hear our editor-in-chief’s thoughts on what makes flash nonfiction successful, you might access this interview from the River Teeth blog. or this post from the Brevity Blog.

We prefer that submissions should be formatted as seen here (single space, no indentation, one extra space between paragraphs) unless alternate formatting is a specific design element of the essay.

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SUBMIT HERE:

https://brevity.submittable.com/submit

(We are currently open for submissions.)

Craft Essays

Our Craft Essay section is in transition, but for now please send Craft Essays to brevitymag+craft (insert @ symbol) gmail.com. Submissions should ideally be under 1,000 words and formatted as seen in our Craft Section (single space, no indentation, space between paragraphs). This category is limited to essays that discuss the craft of writing, such as essays that focus on structure, or editing, or ethics.

The Brevity Blog

While Brevity (the magazine) publishes the finest examples of flash nonfiction we can find, the Brevity Blog is the place to discuss issues related to the writing of creative nonfiction. Full guidelines for the Brevity Blog can be found here.