How to Pitch Your Personal Essay to Literary Magazines

Personal-Essay-Mrkt-Part-2-If you’re a writer eager to pitch your personal essay, check our latest Journalism Advice feature, which includes another 15 markets. See below for just one example. (And don’t forget to visit Part I in our Personal Essay Markets series.)

Literary magazines (see Hunger Mountain, The Threepenny Review, Tin House)
Are essays for literary magazines different from those for consumer mags? “It’s not that literary writing is ‘good’ and consumer magazine writing is ‘bad,'” said writer Alle C.

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