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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...
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Astonish (v.) In 1300, there was a word, astonien, which...
- Craft Essays
As of March 2024, Brevity has folded our Craft Essay section...
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For more than two decades, Brevity: A Journal of Concise...
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When my father stopped eating and we all understood it was a...
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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.
Jan 21, 2024 · Brevity’s special Trans Experience issue features brilliant new writing by Lee Anderson, Nic Anstett, Kay Ulanday Barrett, KB Brookins, Rivka Clifton, Mac Crane, Atlas Desmond, Melissa Faliveno, Eric LeMay, Katherine Scott Nelson, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and Ocean Wei. Artwork by Kah Yangni.
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.
Established in 1997. Publication Medium & Frequency. Electronic Publication. Unknown publication frequency. Nonfiction Open. Dates: Rolling Deadlines: Check cutoff dates. Audience: Open to a broad Audience. Lengths: E Essay. Up to 750 words. Styles: Open to all/most Styles, including: Critical, Literary, Personal. Topics:
Mar 30, 2021 · March 30. Some of My Favorite Essays from Brevity Magazine. Memoir and Essay. If you like your reading in book form, grab The Best of Brevity anthology, a sample of some of the best essays from the online magazine. The single resource I’ve used the most in my writing classes might be Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction.
Zoë Bossiere (they/she) is writer from Tucson, Arizona. They are the managing editor of Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction. as well as the coeditor of two anthologies: The Best of Brevity (Rose Metal Press, 2020) and The Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth from the Margins (Wayne State UP, 2023). Bossiere's debut, Cactus Country: A ...
