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Narrative Winter 2015 Story Contest

Do you have some writing ready to submit? Could you get it ready real fast? Narrative Magazine’s Winter 2015 Contest ends Tuesday, March 31 at midnight, PST This contest is open to all fiction and nonfiction writers: shorts, short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction. Entries must be previously unpublished, no longer than 15,000 words, and must not have been previously chosen as a winner, finalist, or honorable mention in another contest. Narrative is looking for works with a strong narrative drive, with characters we can respond to as human beings, and with effects of language, situation, and insight that are intense and total. We look for works that have the ambition of enlarging our view of ourselves and the world. Narrative welcomes and looks forward to reading your pages. Submission Fee: There is…

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Narrative Magazine’s Mission: advance literary art . . .

The Mission of Narrative Magazine is to advance literary art in the digital age. From Narrative’s website: A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2003, Narrative is dedicated to advancing literary arts in the digital age by supporting the finest writing talent and encouraging readership across generations, in schools, and around the globe. Our online library of new literature by celebrated authors and by the best new and emerging writers is available for free.  Vision: to connect writers and readers around the globe. Narrative welcomes submissions of previously unpublished manuscripts of all lengths, ranging from short short stories to complete book-length works for serialization. Narrative regularly publishes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, including stories, novels, novel excerpts, novellas, personal essays, humor, sketches, memoirs, literary biographies, commentary, reportage, interviews, and features of interest to readers who take pleasure in storytelling and imaginative prose. Narrative looks for quality and originality of language and content….