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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hear 2026 Narrative Prize winner Ola Szczecinska read from “Hunters,” a story of longing, danger, and survival in California’s Sierra Nevada. Read and listen: www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/stori...

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The RPG missed the Humvee and struck the wall behind them. Dust, brick, and sound lifted together. Vale hit the ground without remembering falling. His ears filled with a high clean whine. His mouth tasted of pennies.” —excerpt from “The Distance to Fallujah” by Gregory Clyde

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ola Szczecinska has won the 2026 Narrative Prize for “Hunters.” Please join us in celebrating the twenty-eighth recipient of Narrative’s annual award for an exceptional new or emerging writer. www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/stori...

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“imagine a country a house on fire good gen z millennial kids good upstarts brown denizens who’ve discovered their rights are sticks are legs to walk the streets dearly beloved.” —excerpt from “The Stormtroopers of My Country” by Tishani Doshi

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“His name wasn’t really John. He told me that soon after he took an interest in me. What his real name was I don’t know—I’m not sure if anyone but John himself knew. I suppose he liked it that way. Liked the mystery of it.” —excerpt from “Another Name for Red” by Amber Blaeser-Wardzala

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On September 30 a new voice joins the ranks of the Narrative Prize winners. Meet the 2026 winner next week. Learn more about the Prize and read the winning works: www.narrativemagazine.com/great-storie...

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In less than a week we’ll be announcing the next winner of the Narrative Prize! www.narrativemagazine.com/great-storie... Follow us to be the first to know on September 30.

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Gregory Clyde is the first place winner of our Spring Story Contest with his short story “The Distance to Fallujah”! We’re thrilled to share his winning piece: www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/unsch...

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“The village had no name he ever learned. Tires crunched over broken glass and brick. Women pulled children back from doorways. An old man watched them as if they were weather.” —excerpt from “The Distance to Fallujah” by Gregory Clyde

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/fall-... Stay tuned on September 30 to see who our next Narrative Prize winner is!

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On the occasion of winning our first Narrative Prize, Lee read aloud an excerpt in which Casey and her family sit down for dinner shortly after Casey has graduated from Princeton. Her father asks the perennially demanding question, “Now what are you going to do?”

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A stunning interpretation of the American immigrant experience, Narrative Prize winner Min Jin Lee’s debut novel, “Free Food for Millionaires,” chronicles the struggles of Casey Han, a first-generation Korean woman living in New York City in the 1990s.

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A huge congratulations to Tryphena L. Yeboah, second-place winner of our Spring Story Contest! Enjoy her winning story, “Tilling the Land”: www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/unsch...

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“All I remember is waking up in a pool of sweat, alone, clutching my heart like I’d had a bad dream, and then it dawned on me: I was not dreaming. My daughter, Maria, flesh of my own flesh, had cut me off like a loose thread from a skirt.” —excerpt from “Tilling the Land” by Tryphena L. Yeboah

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“My uncle told me that John lived on land that had been stolen by the state years ago during Allotment from my great-great uncle’s family. Rumors said that John killed any rez dogs that walked onto his property.” —excerpt from “Another Name for Red” by Amber Blaeser-Wardzala

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We can’t wait to share the winner with you on September 30.

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The countdown is on for the announcement of the next Narrative Prize winner! The $5,000 Narrative Prize is awarded annually for the best short story, novel excerpt, poem, graphic story, or work of literary nonfiction by a new or emerging writer.

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Like passports, the books were stamped with their travel history and then stamped with mine.” —excerpt from “A Library Grows in the Bronx” by Ali Solomon

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Keep an eye out in the coming months for their winning poems! See all our finalists: www.narrativemagazine.com/eighteenth-a... @leilachatti.bsky.social

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A HUGE congratulations to the winners of our 18th Annual Poetry Contest! 🥇 In first place we have Mara Adamitz Scrupe’s “Blood Root.” 🥈 In second place is Leah Brand with “Caput Mortuum.” 🥉 In third place is Leila Chatti’s “Where I’m From.”

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In a show-stopping performance of “Downhill Triolets,” award-winning poet and Narrative Prize winner Natalie Diaz uncorks the deep love and pathos in her brother’s story. www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/winte... On September 30 the next Narrative Prize winner will be announced. Stay tuned!

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

From writing advice to inspiration to what a career in publishing could look like, Narrative for Schools has it all—for learners of all ages:

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Narrative for Schools provides access to our complete library of literature, instructional materials, contests, curated reading lists, and video tutorials—free of charge—used by teachers and students throughout the US and in more than sixty countries.

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“ ‘We may live roughly, but at least we are free from anxiety. You live in better style than we do but though you often earn more than you need, you are very likely to lose all you have.’ ” —excerpt from Leo Tolstoy’s “How Much Land Does a Man Need?”

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“We used to visit with my grandfather in his Bronx apartment. His building’s laundry room was like a little free library, only big and musty.” —excerpt from “A Library Grows in the Bronx” by Ali Solomon @alisolomain.bsky.social

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“Grandfather advised me: Learn a trade I learned to sit at desk and condense.” —excerpt from “Poet’s Work” by Lorine Niedecker

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We believe students and readers everywhere deserve a great and free modern library, inside of which they can get deliriously, entertainingly, profoundly lost. And found.

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“When I was no longer welcome in church, I was welcome to my solitude. To question religion in a big empty house, haunted by bigger emptier questions.” —excerpt from “Self-Portrait as Boo Radley” by Harrison Hamm

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“I like the names of all your plants: purple haze, skywalker, blue dream, northern lights. I reach over you to the bed stand for my glass, lured by your scent, intoxicating as wine.” —excerpt from “Hunters” by Ola Szczecinska

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“Keep running down this wheat path and by sunrise, we zig-zag to the county fair: All rides open, we reach toward any moving object. Our hands flail upward: spinning teacups where vertigo numbs our teeth.” —excerpt from “Time Jump” by Chelsea Zhu

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“The survival of poetry, in fact the survival of humans and their world, depends upon the cultivation of better language.” —excerpt from Wendell Berry’s “A Matter of Necessity” Today we honor the life and legacy of Wendell Berry. www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/stori...

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Congrats to Sherwin Bitsui on his new poetry collection, “The Next Sky”! www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/poems...

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“the children huddle nibbling orange crusts from diesel-soaked butterfly wings.” —excerpt from Sherwin Bitsui’s “From Flood Song”

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A huge congratulations to our Spring Story Contest Winners: Gregory Clyde, Tryphena Yeboah, and Jiachen Wang! www.narrativemagazine.com/spring-2026-...

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Need help choosing what to read next? The Narrative Library offers thousands of stories, poems, and essays. Here’s a list of recommendations that range in genres, forms, content, and authors—the best of all worlds—to help you get started. www.narrativemagazine.com/narrative-fo...

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“The American laughed a little—a high, tinkling sound—and then sighed deeply into the massage table as Butterfly pressed down on her spine.” —excerpt from “Butterfly” by Vivian Ludford

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Enjoy Tracey K. Berglund’s graphic story “Some Things I Actually Would Like to Elevate . . .”: www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/narra...

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The winners of our Spring Contest will be announced on August 31! Enjoy last year’s second-place winner:

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Motherland | Narrative Magazine

Motherland by Baird Harper — 1.

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