Off Assignment
Open now for nonfiction.
Last updatedOff Assignment is a nonprofit literary magazine focused on personal essays about travel, place, and encounters with strangers, offering several themed columns for submission.
Response time info: ~84 days; sourced from The Submission Grinder
Read the full guidelines at offassignment.com↗Submission calls
"Under the Influence": Essays on the interplay between art and travel/place, inspired by artists or authors; 800–2000 words.
"Letter to a Stranger": Personal narrative essays in the form of a letter to a memorable stranger; 800–2000 words.
"No Equivalent": Essays about untranslatable words and their personal significance; 800–2000 words.
"What I Didn’t Say": Essays about the untold or omitted parts of a travel or place-based story; 1500–3000 words.
"Goodbye to That Place": Narrative farewells to places of personal significance; 1000–2500 words.
"Witching Hour": Lyrical portraits of a place at a specific time of day or night; 300–800 words.
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