Essay/memoir submissions from emerging writers wanted | $2,000 per piece
Added 2020-12-14 19:30:42 +0000 UTCCOMPANY/PUBLICATION: ROXANEGAY.COM
Roxane Gay is looking for essays/memoirs:
I am starting a new project, part of which will include publishing an emerging writer twice a month, starting in January 2021. 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.
All essays will be 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 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.
We respond to all submissions, generally within six weeks.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Submissions: Via Submittable
Website: https://roxanegay.com/
