Essays (Nonfiction)
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We welcome submissions of creative nonfiction with a focus on lyric essays. While the definition of what makes a lyric essay is expansive and ever-evolving, our editors gravitate towards work that experiments with form and language, complicates our understanding of a topic, challenges our sense of certainty, or eschews truth in favor of the unknown, and takes us somewhere new. We are not particularly interested in essays that simply inform or document, but ones that bring to us to the threshold (of what? Anything) and incite conversations. We're looking for your essays that meander through time, challenge expectations, introduce nuance, humor, and paradox. We want work that lingers, elides, and leaves things unsaid. All is fair play for the lyric essay.
Please send one essay of up to 5,000 words or up to four related short essays within the same total word limit.