Five Minutes
Open now for nonfiction.
Last checkedFive Minutes publishes tightly constrained 100-word nonfiction pieces centered on an identifiable moment.
Response time info: within three months
Read the full guidelines at fiveminutes.submittable.com↗Submission calls
Accepts exactly 100-word memoir or nonfiction pieces centered on an identifiable moment; titles must be no more than 15 characters, and pieces must be unpublished and formatted as one block of text. Poetry and fiction are not accepted, though poetic prose and memoir masquerading as fiction may be considered. The 2026 submissions period ends January 1, 2027, at 5:00 AM. Five Minutes does not pay for publication.
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