Speculative Nonfiction

A journal of nonfiction concerned with the figurative over the literal, ambiguity over knowing, meditation over reportage. NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS!

[Speculative Nonfiction @specnonfic]

Issue 6 is here, just in time for you to read on that plane or train to #AWP22! Thanks & congrats to our brilliant contributors: Billie Pritchett, @BrendaMiller31, @bunnythedoc, Caite McNeil, @CoyoteShook, Evan Massey, @gyasi_hall, Natalia Singer, @Nikwalkotter & @penelope_cray!

[Faith Adiele @meetingfaith]

Yes! I been saying this for years! 👋🏾 Natalia! 👋🏾 @specnonfic!

[Faith Adiele @meetingfaith]

So thrilled to see this magical essay written by Caite McNeil in my @StonecoastMFA travel workshop find its home in @specnonfic!

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@LeighChadwick5 @vic_toriawrites Not super fast, but we do take simultaneous submissions. We hope to be faster on this issue than last one, since we had some staffing shifts in the last round.

[Sean Prentiss @PrentissSean]

The new issue of @specnonfic is out from @theleilaphilip and @Robinhemley. It includes great essays from @Nikwalkotter and @BrendaMiller31 . Check it out here:

https://t.co/JFTKOu1SMr

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We see our sampler chapbook there! And in such great company! It was a pleasure to meet you at the bookfair.

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Thanks to all of our new followers from #AWP22! It was such a pleasure to answer so many of your questions at our Bookfair Booth. As we said if you dropped by, we are open for Issue #7 so come submit! We look forward to reading your brilliant #nonfiction https://t.co/AIfNUXnNMD

[The Nonfiction Writing Program @iowa_nwp]

Read NWP writer Gyasi Hall (@gyasi_hall) in Speculative Nonfiction (@specnonfic).

https://t.co/TmnVM9P8Av

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@gyasi_hall We're loving that description of being "about God and carpet stains and weird ASMR videos." Should have used that in the marketing! 😂

[Gyasi Hall @gyasi_hall]

Shout out to speculative nonfiction for giving this essay a home! Read it if you wanna! Its about God and carpet stains and weird ASMR videos

[Speculative Nonfiction @specnonfic]

@haassr @gyasi_hall And this is such an excellent piece!

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“This game, Marble Solitaire, that I was drawn to play [...] defined winning as the elimination of all others from the sphere of play and measured my success as a player by how well I ended up alone.”
https://t.co/OjsLko6a5W @penelope_cray

[Speculative Nonfiction @specnonfic]

“For me, by speculating that Nina Simone visited me in Utah, it allowed me to think about appropriation, the history of music, [and] the persistence of cover songs..." https://t.co/IJ20fe9GlM @Nikwalkotter

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“I have come to see that all literature is a form of travel writing [...] and whether each place we bring to the page is one we’ve seen or only imagined, we’re always speculating about its contours and customs.” https://t.co/Vf9apWgqYv

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“Speculation isn’t just a function of the future (prediction) or the past (reconstruction) but of the present (curation). Everything is always happening all at once. By writing about it you are actively choosing what to focus on.” https://t.co/5skJdIsVPi @gyasi_hall

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“A lot of what I remember is fragmented. Memories come to me in pieces, morsels even. Though, rather than fret over my inability to fully recollect a single moment, it gives me the chance to stitch and sew numerous memories and moments together.” https://t.co/z9ND6E09vk @evan

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“What are the limits of introspection in a moment of crisis? How do the intersections of personal crisis and environmental crisis create rich fodder for speculation?” https://t.co/42ROugPxRZ @CoyoteShook

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“This is a story born of regret over lost time and temporary loss of self. It is a travel narrative of the speculative sort, where the narrator imagines her way away from the pain and dysfunction of her reality.” https://t.co/iIYN5vkyG5