Don’t forget about Assay this fall! We’re coming up on the perfect weather to stay indoors with a hot beverage and submit to literary journals. We hope to see your submission in our inbox! View our full submission guidelines and submit your work here: buff.ly/rRryWpS #SubmissionsOpen #LitMag

This Throwback Thursday, we’re revisiting Assay issue 1.1 with Ned Stuckey‑French’s essay “Our Queer Little Hybrid Thing.” “The essay has also gotten lost under the big tent of terms..." Read the complete article here: buff.ly/vmZg07o #ThrowbackThursday #CreativeNonfiction #CreativeWriting #Queer

This week we’re shining a spotlight on Ashley Anderson’s essay “Give Them Space: Memoir as a Site for Processing Readers’ Grief” from Assay issue 10.1. “Grief is an experience that needs space..." Read the complete article here: buff.ly/ndhvO4o #Nonfiction#CreativeNonfiction#Grief#Memoir#Memory

This week we’re pulling from the Assay Interview Project archives with an interview of Maggie Paxson. “‘Who does what with whom?’ is a foundational question." Read the complete interview here: buff.ly/ODIIZKY #Interview#NonfictionBooks#CreativeNonfiction#AuthorInterview#Anthropology#Narrative

We’re highlighting Jacqueline Doyle’s essay “Shuffling the Cards: I Think Back Through Judith Ortiz Cofer” from Assay issue 4.1. In this piece, Doyle invites educators to re-deal the deck of narrative inheritance. Read more here: buff.ly/PFjuHOJ #Pedagogy #Nonfiction #TeacherResources

This Syllabus Sunday we are highlighting a creative writing workshop course from the Assay syllabi bank. The Personal Essay by Professor Deborah Thompson. Read the full syllabus here: buff.ly/inHTi6l #Syllabus #TeacherResources #LessonPlans #FreeTeachingResources #CreativeNonfiction #Teaching

As we close down spooky week, we want to remind you that Assay is open for submissions year round! We’re seeking essays, pedagogy, and conversations that engage deeply with the craft, history, and theory of nonfiction - spooky and non-spooky! Submit your work here: buff.ly/8BXEzxI #SubmissionsOpen

Quotidiana.org is back! We're so excited that this magnificent nonfiction is resource is back up and running--check it out this from Patrick Madden! buff.ly/kaGI9k6

For spooky week we’re highlighting a literary magazine with a scary short submission period! The Stinging Fly is getting ready to open for submissions starting November 4th and lasting only a short 2 weeks. Spooky! Read their complete guidelines and submit here: buff.ly/ZkAQe9L #SubmissionsOpen

This spooky week Throwback Thursday, we’re revisiting Assay issue 7.1 with August Owens Grimm’s essay “Haunted Memoir.” In this piece, Grimm explores how memoir can become a form of ghost story. Read the complete article here: buff.ly/Bdi5qtw #ThrowbackThursday#Nonfiction#CreativeWriting#Spooky

This spooky week we’re shining a spotlight on Allison Ellis’s essay “Nonfiction Ghost Hunting” from Assay issue 8.1. In this piece, Ellis ventures into the eerie intersection of nonfiction and the supernatural. Read it here: buff.ly/ri1uKyn #EssaysThatMatter #Nonfiction #GhostStories #Spooky

This spooky week we’re pulling from the Assay Interview Project archives with an interview of Gail Griffin. In this chilling conversation, Griffin delves into her book “The Events of October: Murder-Suicide on a Small Campus.” Read the complete interview here: buff.ly/Z0FNp97 #Interview

This spooky week’s Pedagogy Monday we’re revisiting Wendy Ryden’s essay “Liminally True: Creative Nonfiction as Transformative Thirdspace” from Assay issue 6.1. Read it here: buff.ly/J56CR9o #Pedagogy #Nonfiction #TeacherResources #FreeTeachingResources #SpookyWeek #LiminalSpace #Transformation

👻Today marks the first day of spooky week at Assay! 👻 This Syllabus Sunday we are highlighting a Special Topics course from the Assay syllabi bank, an Honors Seminar with a theme of True Crime taught by Professor Amy Monticello. Read the full syllabus here: buff.ly/O6cHFzB #Syllabus #ForTeachers

Autumn is the season for reflection… and for sending out your best work! As the leaves turn, we invite you to share your essays in nonfiction with Assay. Let your words fall into place this season 😊 View our submission guidelines and submit here: buff.ly/7XsiSq4 #SubmissionsOpen

It’s getting down to the wire! Atlantic Northeast Literary Journal is closing submissions for their Winter issue on October 31st. Read their complete guidelines and submit here: buff.ly/m7nxQwg #SubmitYourWork #SubmissionsOpen #CreativeNonfiction #Nonfiction #AtlanticNortheast #LitMag #LitJournal

This Throwback Thursday, we’re revisiting Assay issue 2.2 with William Bradley’s conversation piece “On the Pleasure of Hazlitt.” “But I have to be honest—I enjoy hating things that suck.” Read it here: buff.ly/EyTjj7T #ThrowbackThursday #EssaysThatMatter #CreativeNonfiction #LitMag #Nonfiction

This week we’re shining a spotlight on Joanna Eleftheriou’s essay “Is Genre Ever New? Theorizing the Lyric Essay in Its Historical Context” from Assay 4.1. Read the complete article here: buff.ly/FK2JYCH #Spotlights #EssaysThatMatter #Nonfiction #CreativeNonfiction #Genre #Narrative #Poetry #Prose

This week we’re pulling from the Assay Interview Project archives with an interview of Debra Monroe conducted by Heidi Czerwiec. “I wanted an anthology that reflected the genre now." Read the complete interview here: buff.ly/Btp8hs0 #Interview #EssayBooks #CreativeNonfiction #Anthology #Writing

This Pedagogy Monday we’re highlighting Freesia McKee’s “Where and How We Might Teach Hybrid: A Pedagogical Review of Kazim Ali’s Silver Road.” McKee examines how Ali’s hybrid work can inspire classrooms to blur the boundaries between genres. Read more here: buff.ly/8ldMxSH #Pedagogy #LitMag

This Syllabus Sunday we are highlighting a Literary Editing course from the Assay syllabi bank. Literary Editing and Publishing by Professor Dinty W. Moore. Read the full syllabus here: buff.ly/Yvzn3tl #Syllabus #TeacherResources #LessonPlans #FreeTeachingResources #CreativeNonfiction #Pedagogy

As the semester settles in and the air turns crisp, it’s the perfect time to submit to Assay! We’re seeking essays, pedagogy, and conversations that engage deeply with the craft, history, and theory of nonfiction. Submit your work here: buff.ly/7XsiSq4 #SubmissionsOpen

In our final piece of Assay 12.1, Molly Tompkins interviews Margaret Juhae Lee on her memoir Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History, which unearths her grandfather’s imprisonment during Japan’s occupation of Korea. Read it here or visit the link in our bio: buff.ly/HNVu6HH #LitMag #Interview

The final article in Assay 12.1, Jeff Porter’s essay “The History and Poetics of the Essay” traces how the essay’s shape has morphed across eras and how its tension between freedom and constraint makes it unique. Read it here or visit the link in our bio: buff.ly/PsNx8uS #EssaysThatMatter #LitMag

Our second Pedagogy piece in Assay 12.1, Jessica Handler’s essay “On Teaching Adrienne Rich” reflects on the possibilities and challenges of teaching a poet and activist whose work centers on power, identity, and resistance. Read it here or visit the link in our bio: buff.ly/vyP0EoU #Pedagogy

The leaves are falling, and so are excuses not to submit! 🍂 Assay is open for submissions! Send us your best work in nonfiction studies, pedagogy, or reviews this season. View our full submission guidelines and submit your work here: buff.ly/ttzEhce #SubmissionsOpen #SubmitYourWork #Pedagogy

Booth Literary Journal is currently accepting submissions until midnight on November 30th. Check out some of their guidelines below and visit their website to submit your work. Read their complete guidelines and submit here: buff.ly/e5Fqxb8 #SubmitYourWork #SubmissionsOpen #CreativeNonfiction

Our second Pedagogy piece in Assay 12.1 is Kathryn Nuernberger’s essay “Research as Ritual.” In it, Nuernberger reconceives research as an embodied, daily practice Read it here or visit the link in our bio: buff.ly/TK1zvfc #EssaysThatMatter #CreativeNonfiction #NewIssue #MagazineLaunch #Pedagogy

In Assay 12.1, Megan Connolly’s essay “A Team in the Face of the World” explores how animal companions become more than supporting characters, they take on agency, presence, and emotional gravitas. Read it here or visit the link in our bio: buff.ly/6xPCu6k #EssaysThatMatter#LitMag#MagazineLaunch

In issue 12.1 of Assay, Amy Garrett Brown’s pedagogy focused essay “Teaching the Researched Family-Profile Essay as Meaningful, Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy and Counterstory” makes a powerful case for bringing identity, history, and purpose into the classroom. Read it here: buff.ly/MoB8SVi

The first conversation piece in Assay 12.1 is Desirae Matherly’s “In Defense of Navel Gazing.” “Navel-gazing as a criticism is most often applied to works that focus merely on the self and do not look out from it." Read it here or visit the link in our bio: buff.ly/eUpi85N #CreativeNonfiction

This Syllabus Sunday we are highlighting a Nonfiction Pedagogy course from the Assay syllabi bank. Seminar in Composition and Creative Writing Pedagogy by Dr. Julia Platt. Read the full syllabus here: buff.ly/cAnwazP #Syllabus #TeacherResources #LessonPlans #FreeTeachingResources #Pedagogy

Don’t forget about Assay this fall! We’re coming up on the perfect weather to stay indoors with a hot beverage and submit to literary journals. We hope to see your submission in our inbox! View our full submission guidelines and submit your work here: buff.ly/FoL6Amj #SubmissionsOpen #LitMag

Barely South Review is accepting submissions for one more month until November 1st! Barely South Review is an online biannual publication staffed by students of the MFA program at Old Dominion University. Read the complete guidelines and submit here: buff.ly/oQPtUgu #SubmitYourWork

Amy Bonnaffons offers “Bodies of Text: On the Lyric Essay,” for Assay 12.1. She examines how lyric essays’ use of white space, shifts in voice, and associative leaps invite readers into the text. Read it here or visit the link in our bio: buff.ly/97Ohg2d #LitMag #Nonfiction #NewIssue

The pedagogy of Assay Issue 12.1! 🗣️Amy Garrett Brown ✏️Teaching the Researched Family Profile as Meaningful Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy and Counterstory 🗣️Jessica Handler ✏️On Teaching Adrienne Rich Read them here: buff.ly/Sv9yxzt #AssayJournal #Pedagogy #Interviews #Nonfiction #NewIssue

The conversations of Assay Issue 12.1! 🗣️Desirae Matherly ✏️In Defense of Navel Gazing 🗣️Kathryn Nuernberger ✏️Research as Ritual 🗣️Molly Tompkins ✏️Interview with Margaret Juhae Lee Read them here: buff.ly/Sv9yxzt #AssayJournal #Conversations #Interviews #Nonfiction #NewIssue #MagazineLaunch

The articles of Assay Issue 12.1! 🗣️Amy Bonnaffons ✏️Bodies of Text: On the Lyric Essay 🗣️Megan Connolly ✏️A Team in the Face of the World: Dogs as Narrative Agents in Memoirs about Life after Loss 🗣️Jeff Porter ✏️The History and Poetics of the Essay Read them here: buff.ly/Sv9yxzt #NewIssue

Happy October! Assay Issue 12.1 (Fall 2025) is here, full of delightful new nonfiction scholarship and pedagogy! buff.ly/Sv9yxzt #AssayJournal #SubmissionsOpen #SubmitYourWork #Pedagogy #Nonfiction #Interviews #LiteraryCriticism #TeachingResources #NewIssue #MagazineLaunch

This week we’re pulling from the Assay Interview Project archives with an interview of Monica Drake. The interview centers on Drake’s novel Clown Girl. “I’m interested in how we make meaning and make sense of our lives." Read complete interview here: buff.ly/AgFVvK3 #Interview #Nonfiction

This Pedagogy Monday we are highlighting Susan M. Stabile’s “Architectures of Revision.” In this essay, Stabile explores revision not just as a stage in writing but as a way of thinking. Read the rest here: buff.ly/ZoMkhbX #Pedagogy #Nonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #FreeTeachingResources #Revision

This Syllabus Sunday we are highlighting the course Writing & Rhetoric: Creative Composition by Professor Micah McCrary. Read the full syllabus here: buff.ly/76qI5Pu #AssayJournal #Syllabus #TeacherResources #LessonPlans #CreativeNonfiction #Composition #Workshop #CreativeWriting

Your weekly reminder to consider Assay when sending out submissions this upcoming fall! View our full submission guidelines and submit your work here: buff.ly/FoL6Amj Or visit the link in our bio! #SubmissionsOpen #SubmitYourWork #Pedagogy #Nonfiction #Interviews #TeachingResources

Gulf Coast Literary Journal is now open for submission till March 1. Gulf Coast Literary Journal is a biannual publication (April and October) of multi genre writing as well as visual art and critical art writing.. Read complete guidelines and submit here: buff.ly/oL5rsSq #SubmissionsOpen

This Throwback Thursday, we’re revisiting Laura Valeri’s essay “Tell Tale Interviews: Lessons in True-Life Trauma Narratives Gleaned from Jennifer Fox’s The Tale.” “We are different people as we move through time." Read the article here: buff.ly/7c6r23i #ThrowbackThursday #CreativeNonfiction

This week we’re pulling from the Assay Interview Project archives with an interview of Michael Martone. The interview centers on Martone’s playful and unconventional approach to nonfiction, where form often bends, blurs, and reinvents itself. Read the interview here: buff.ly/y0m1Ywx #Interview

This Pedagogy Monday we are highlighting Terry Ann Thaxton’s “Workshop Wild.” In this piece, Thaxton reimagines the traditional writing workshop, inviting students to embrace wildness, risk, and vulnerability in their creative process. Read it here: buff.ly/un4VThO #Pedagogy #TeacherResources

This Syllabus Sunday we are highlighting a Form & Theory course from the Assay syllabi bank. Advanced Creative Nonfiction Prose: On Structure by Professor Julia Šukys. Read the full syllabus here: buff.ly/9QrY6e9 #AssayJournal #Syllabus #TeacherResources #LessonPlans #FreeTeachingResources

Your weekly reminder to submit to Assay! Our submission portal is open year round! View our full submission guidelines and submit your work here: buff.ly/4NnF3BR Or visit the link in our bio! #SubmissionsOpen #SubmitYourWork #Pedagogy #Nonfiction #Interviews #LiteraryCriticism #TeachingResources

New month, new chances for publication! River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and their sister journal Beautiful Things are now open for submissions. The River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize is also open for submissions Submit here: buff.ly/vqE7upE #SubmissionsOpen