Send us your best CNF! We welcome memoir, braided essays, lyric essays, hermit crab essays, fragmented essays, flash nonfiction, and hybrid work. We welcome submissions of literary journalism or reportage, so long as the essay maintains a personal element. We do not publish scholarly essays at this time.

We accept prose pieces up to 30 manuscript pages (9,000 words). Please submit only one essay at a time. However, we will read up to three flash pieces in one submission if the total page count remains under 15 pages. We consider memoir excerpts if they stand alone.

Please do not submit book reviews or interviews here. Those items have their own submission categories.

Please note that you will be given the opportunity to "add on" a subscription to this submission. If you select this option, you will receive a discounted submitter rate of $18.00 for a 1-year subscription.