Nonfiction/Hybrids Submissions

We're looking for all manner of well-written, innovative creative nonfiction (up to 4500 words) including, but not limited to, lyric essays, personal essays, memoir, and literary journalism. We enjoy work that pays attention to form and language—whether traditionally or experimentally—and explores and challenges the boundaries of the genre. We seek work that is pathologically curious. That said, our primary concern is not with one particular component of creative nonfiction, but with the quality of the work. 

In addition to standard (whatever that means) submissions, Passages North wants your hybrid work. Send us your orphans, your bastards, your bumpings, and your grindings, whether whimsical, grave, or neither. 

Note: Submissions with extensive use of color are less likely to be publishable in our issues, though not impossible.

Genre editor: Matthew Gavin Frank