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Brevity’s Spring 2024 issue features stunning new essays from Aram Mrjoian, Diane Zinna, Jim Daniels, Joey Franklin, Jiadai Lin, Heather Cook Mihalik, Felicia Zamora, Rachel Zimmerman, Shubha Venugopal, Diana Ruzova, James Irwin, Mary Ann McGuigan, Andrea Rinard, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, and Ira Sukrungruang.
- Submissions
Brevity has closed submissions as of May 1, 2024. We will...
- Current
Astonish (v.) In 1300, there was a word, astonien, which...
- Past
Introducing Brevity’s latest special issue, which also...
- Craft Essays
As of March 2024, Brevity has folded our Craft Essay section...
- About
For more than two decades, Brevity: A Journal of Concise...
- Raiment
When my father stopped eating and we all understood it was a...
- Boxes
Gessner is the founder of the literary magazine, Ecotone....
- Carne Santificata
This is beautiful! My favorite part: “When my husband held...
- In The Neuro Unit
Old men lie pale and shrunken, their blood pressure cuffs...
- Oh, You're a Mean, Old Daddy
Put some flowers round her room. I saw Joni Mitchel in...
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May 8, 2016 · Issue 52 / May 2016 / Nonfiction. Roots. by M. SAUSUN • May 8, 2016 4 Comments. I’m sorry I couldn’t pull up those roots. The ones twisting under the pine tree that you and Mom planted when the two of you first bought the land and decided to build a house on it.
Robert Root is co-author of The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction and author of E. B. White: The Emergence of an Essayist , Wordsmithery, and Working at Writing : Columnists and Critics Composing. His essays have been published in The North Dakota Quarterly, The Dunes Review, The Rockhurst Review, and elsewhere.
Sep 7, 2020 · September 7, 2020. by April Bradley. Since its establishment in 1997, Brevity: a Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction, has been the first and longest-standing literary journal to offer a home dedicated exclusively to the publication of short creative works of nonfiction.
Brevity: A Magazine and a Genre, Briefly. Report by Melissa Voss. The challenge that Brevity Magazine, an online journal of concise literary nonfiction, presents to writers is to tell a compelling story, and a factual one at that, in 750 words or less.
