Blog 22: Handout regarding publication venue

PUBLISHING RULES FOR BREVITY

BREVITY publishes essays of 750 words or less of nonfiction only - memoir, journalism, or lyric.

BREVITY says that memoir and narrative are best told with scenes and detail, not explanation. It also says that personal essays should have image and sensory language.

BREVITY will publish first time authors, including students.

BREVITY will accept no more than two submissions per author per calendar year.

BREVITY has filled the upcoming issue and is now reading for summer and fall 2010.

BREVITY occasionally pays a small honorarium, but most of the time cannot.

Upon acceptance, BREVITY asks for one-time rights; with all subsequent rights reverting immediately to the author.

“Bernard Cooper suggests that short nonfiction ‘requires an alertness to detail, a quickening of the senses, a focusing of the literary lens, so to speak, until one has magnified some small aspect of what it means to be human.’”

How to submit:
BREVITY asks that you cut-and-paste your brief essay into the body of an e-mail, single spaced with a brief bio note before the essay and indicate your approximate word count.
Send the essay to: brevity@gmail.co