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Here’s Some Essays I Like

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Seth Fischer

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It’s that time again: here’s some very short nonfiction that’ll only take a minute to read but that will make you feel something.

“Connie was albino, exceptionally white even by the ultra-Caucasian standards of our southern suburb. Only her eyelids had color: mouse-nose pink, framed by moth-white lashes and brows.” — At Brevity, “White Lies” by Erin Murphy.

“Had God not become an extremist, tipping the scales, there would still exist today an equiponderant balance between what you might consider good and evil.” — At elimae, “Jesus was Cute” by Kim Teeple.

“I shared my first kiss with two boys, best friends.” At Eclectica, “Kissing in Tandem” by Valerie Fioravanti.

“On each day she was supposed to write a reason to live.” At The Collagist, “Light” by Michael Palmer.

I’m always looking for journals with a web presence that publish excellent flash nonfiction. If you know of any good sites I might be missing, put a note in the comments section or send me an email.

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Seth Fischer
Seth Fischer’s writing has twice been listed as notable in The Best American Essays and has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize by several publications, including Guernica. He was the founding Sunday editor at The Rumpus and is the current nonfiction editor at The Nervous Breakdown. He is a Dornsife PhD Fellow at USC and been awarded fellowships and residencies by Ucross, Lambda Literary, Jentel, Ragdale, and elsewhere, and he teaches at the UCLA-Extension Writer’s Program and Antioch University, where he received his MFA.

5 responses

  1. Ryan V. Avatar
    Ryan V.

    Defunct Magazine at defunctmag.com. Flash essays about the obsolete.

  2. Shya Avatar
    Shya

    Hot Metal Bridge publishes some good short non-fiction.

    http://hotmetalbridge.org/

  3. RK Avatar
    RK

    Just getting started, but Prime Number Magazine shows promise: http://www.primenumbermagazine.com/Issue2_PrimeDecimals3.html

  4. Seth Fischer Avatar
    Seth Fischer

    Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I’ll check them out.

  5. Valerie Fioravanti Avatar
    Valerie Fioravanti

    Thanks for the mention, Seth. Print mags that have been friendly toward my CNF shorts/micro essays are Los Angeles Review, Quarterly West, Indiana Review, Cream City Review, Sycamore Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Redivider. I’d also consider River Teeth and Memoir (and). The Smart Set, if it relates to travel.

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