Brick

Open now for nonfiction.

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Brick is a literary journal publishing polished literary nonfiction, including essays, reviews, interviews, memoir, translations, and other creative nonfiction.

Response time info: Up to a year

Read the full guidelines at brickmag.com↗

Submission calls

nonfictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Oct 31Pays: $65–$720 depending on the length of accepted work, plus two copies of the issue and a one-year subscription.

Open to: Submissions must be previously unpublished; only one piece may be submitted at a time, and writers must submit through Submittable.

Brick accepts finished, polished literary nonfiction, including essays, reviews, interviews, memoir, translations, and explorations of nonfiction form. Submissions are open October 1–31 and April 1–30; Brick tends toward 1,000–5,000 words but sets no formal word limit. Work must be previously unpublished, non-AI-generated, and submitted through Submittable. Free submissions may reach the platform cap before the period ends; submit-and-subscribe and submit-and-buy-an-issue options remain open throughout. Up to a year for a response.

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