Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction

Submitting your work

Please write for sample back issues (or check out samples on our website) in order to become familiar with the journal. We accept only previously unpublished work. We think of the genre as flexible, fluid, and expansive, and so we’re looking for essays in any variety—lyrical, familiar, personal, nature, environmental, travel, graphic, and experimental. We’re particularly interested in idea-driven essays, whether narrative or meditative. Tell us a good story, but seed that story with ideas. Engage in some deep meditation, but ground that meditation in people and stories and things. Bring the mind to life. Bring life to the mind.