Nonfiction submissions wanted (nuanced, thoughtful work) | $2,000 per essay
Added 2022-01-03 18:50:06 +0000 UTCCOMPANY/PUBLICATION: THE AUDACITY
Roxane Gay, Creator of The Audacity, is looking for submissions:
The Audacity is once again open for Emerging Writer essay submissions. Submissions are open until I find 24 essays. Likely 4 months.
THE AUDACITY, my newsletter, features an emerging writer twice a month. I define emerging writer as someone with fewer than three article/essay/short story publications and no published books or book contracts.
Please submit your best nonfiction and nonfiction only. I am interested in literary essays and memoir. Please submit only one essay at a time. Essays should be between 1500 and 3000 words. We may take up to eight weeks to respond but we will respond to all submissions.
All essays are paid a flat fee of $2,000.
Submissions will only be accepted at https://gay.submittable.com/.
I am interested in thoughtful essays, beautiful, intelligent writing, deep explorations, timelessness, and challenging conventional thinking without being cheap and lazy. I am interested in provocative work but we are not interested in senseless provocation. You don't have to cannibalize yourself to tell a compelling story. The essays in Unruly Bodies or that I have preciously published in The Audacity might give you a sense of what I like but I am always open to being surprised. I am not looking to publish anew what I've already published.
Again, I am only interested in nonfiction, which is to say no poetry, fiction, or anything else that is not nonfiction. I cannot stress this enough. I am only interested in nonfiction for the Emerging Writer Series.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Submissions: Via Submittable
Website: http://audacity.substack.com/
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