Hindsight Creative Nonfiction

https://www.hindsightjournal.org/

Magazine

Hindsight strives to highlight voices from all walks of life by publishing creative nonfiction in all its forms. We aim at nurturing a wide diversity in both our contributors and our content. Anything from poetry to memoir to comics is considered for our annual publication in the spring, all through blind review, and all creative nonfiction. With submissions open year round, authors and artists have the opportunity to be published in our print journal and growing online platform.

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University of Colorado Boulder

Dr. Jay Ellis

Associate Teaching Professor

essays, nonfiction, poetry, art

Hindsight publishes creative nonfiction (in both prose and poetry, and is now open to creative nonfiction comics) in print and online. Open to anyone except for current teaching faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder, we publish annual print issues of Hindsight each spring, and annual issues of "Hindsight Presents: Changing Skies: Writing Through the Climate Crisis" each fall. Writing submissions for our special Changing Skies issues must center on climate change. We also accept and publish art, most often as accompaniment to the writing (we're a literary journal first). Hindsight Online publishes both online-only content and republishes all our print issues as .pdf's. We use Submittable and obtain FNASR and republishing rights unless contributors revoke those after publication. Submissions guidelines can be found on our website.

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https://www.hindsightjournal.org/submit

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Year round

01 - 12 weeks

none, copies

24

2013

350

1,000

$15.00

$University of Colorado Boulder Program for Writing and Rhetoric

$15.00

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8.5" - 11"

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Dr. Jay Ellis

Associate Teaching Professor; Faculty Advisor for Hindsight

I helped a WRTG 2020 creative nonfiction class publish their work in 2013. From our next issue through our tenth, we were Journal Twenty Twenty (CU-only). In 2021 we became Hindsight and in 2022 added Hindsight Presents: Changing Skies--open to all.

Undergraduates in a Publishing Practicum or taking lower or upper-division Internships, as well as volunteers and occasional graduate students. Most come from a variety of majors--from Anthropology to Neurology to a few Writing majors. I teach all.

The usual: keep it short, mention no more than three previous publications (unpublished is fine), and read our instructions carefully. Definitely read back-issues, and only send creative nonfiction.

First reads are blind. Experienced editors and advisors read behind before rejection, and to ensure we publish a few writers from CU Boulder but the majority from writers globally, with no CU affiliation.

Strong writing with evident knowledge of the many sub-genres of creative nonfiction--not only memoir. In poetry, we should see you know why you're lineating if you're not using an existing form, and poetry also must be nonfiction. We need more humor.

Read our previous issues. We began because our undergrad writing (with respect to MFA programs) surpassed that of most other literary magazines (Volume I, Issue 1 is online as evidence). Then feel free to send us something new to us that still fits.

We're proud to practice blind review and have done so from our second issue on. But the writing in our very first issue in 2013 continues to amaze me--that one class produced enough good work unedited by me (students edit each other) for a journal.

You. But also those unlikely to read literary journals. Our beautiful design invites anyone to turn perhaps to an arresting color spread with only a couple of paragraphs taking their time, and then fall into strong writing they can't put down.