Narrative Magazine

Open now for fiction, nonfiction, other work, and poetry.

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Narrative Magazine is a nonprofit literary magazine accepting year-round submissions of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and multimedia, with a submission fee and payment to authors.

Response time info: four to twelve weeks, with the slowest times usually being August/September and December/January

Read the full guidelines at narrativemagazine.com↗

Submission calls

fictionLiteraryFee (amount not stated)Pays: $250–$500 for 500–2,000 words; $500–$1,000 for 2,000–15,000 words; $500 for Story of the Week; eligible for $5,000 Narrative Prize

Accepts short short stories (500–2,000 words), short stories and excerpts (2,000–15,000 words), novellas (submit first 15,000 words with synopsis for works up to 40,000 words), and serialization proposals (first chapter and synopsis); open year-round.

nonfictionLiteraryFee (amount not stated)Pays: $250–$500 for 500–2,000 words; $500–$1,000 for 2,000–15,000 words; $100 for Readers’ Narratives (up to 1,500 words); eligible for $5,000 Narrative Prize

Accepts essays and other complete short works (2,000–15,000 words), excerpts from longer works, and serialization proposals; open year-round.

otherFee (amount not stated)Pays: $200 minimum per accepted audio/video piece; eligible for $5,000 Narrative Prize

Photo essays (5–20 images, with captions/text, single file, max 50mb); Narrative Outloud audio prose (fiction or nonfiction, up to 10 minutes, MP3); Narrative Outloud audio poetry (up to 10 minutes, MP3); Narrative Outloud video (short films/documentaries, up to 15 minutes, .mp4/.mov, max 50mb); ope

poetryFee (amount not stated)Pays: $200 minimum per accepted poem; $200 for Poem of the Week; $100 for poetry reprints; eligible for $5,000 Narrative Prize

Submit up to five poems in a single file; all poetic forms and genres accepted except translations; open year-round.

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