Narrative Magazine

The Moses sisters lived together, alone, in the fine old brick house near downtown where they had grown up. Who knows why neither had ever married. The older, larger one, sure, you could imagine reasons. ...

Charles Klein’s photographs have appeared in the cover designs of more than seventy-five books, including those by E. L. Doctorow, Ivan Klima, Sena Jeter Naslund, Charles Baxter, Richard North Patterson, Paul Auster, and Andrew Solomon, to name just a few. ...

In our continuing series of responses from our authors on the best advice they were ever given on matters that were key for them, we’re pleased to offer some inspirational thoughts from distinguished author and professor Janet Burroway:

A field linguist working in Sierra Leone to document the vanishing language of Kim, Hannah Sarvasy created graphic images as part of a Kim dictionary, and along the way she became part of the community’s ...

Margaret took a bath. The tub, like all tubs in apartments worth living in, was grimy. She had scrubbed it many times, but the porcelain remained gray and streaked with rust around the drain. She didn’t mind. ...

I am the Lion Nnow by Edan Lepucki Let the squeamish suffer their fear, let them live without really living. To read the rest of the story, go HERE ...

“Man is a tool-making animal,” Benjamin Franklin observed at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution: Homo faber, “Man the Maker,” is the successor to Homo sapiens, “Man the Thinker.” For more than two hundred ...

Among the many superb poems we published last year as Poems of the Week, five stood out for their deep humanity and intelligence. These poems, one by a Frenchman, one by a Belarussian, and three by Americans, ...

Awards: First Prize is $1,500, Second Prize is $750, and Third Prize is $300, and ten finalists will receive $100 each. The prize winners and finalists will be announced in Narrative.

Although it was so brilliantly fine—the blue sky powdered with gold and great spots of light like white wine splashed over the Jardins Publiques—Miss Brill was glad that she had decided on her fur. The ...

Awards: First Prize is $1,500, Second Prize is $750, and Third Prize is $300, and ten finalists will receive $100 each. The prize winners and finalists will be announced in Narrative.

In our continuing series of responses from our authors on the best advice they were ever given on matters that were key for them, we’re pleased to offer some advice that is difficult and candid, from writer Tina Nettesheim: