Guidelines

The Audacity is Roxane Gay’s newsletter, and through its Emerging Writer Series it “features an emerging writer twice a month.” The series is open to writers with fewer than three published articles, essays, or short stories and no published books or book contracts. They want nonfiction only, especially literary essays and memoir, of 1,500 to 4,000 words, and they read completed essays rather than pitches. According to their submission guidelines, all essays are paid a flat fee of $1,000. To learn more, refer to their submission guidelines, or visit their website.