NARRATIVE MAGAZINE is pleased to announce that as of this notice they have lowered their reading fee for all submissions of all lengths to $5. They are also issuing a call for nonfiction manuscripts for a forthcoming nonfiction issue of Narrative.
They are interested in receiving articles, memoirs, profiles, essays, commentary, satire, humor, and other nonfiction works of interest to literary readers. They are also actively seeking book length works for serialization.
For Submission Guidelines, log on at WWW.NARRATIVEMAGAZINE.COM.
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You mean there are still writers out there who are willing to pay someone to consider their work for publication? Not this writer!!
Yeah, I was confused because at the bottom of your post on Jan. 25th you said it wasn’t necessary to pay to submit to an article directory.
Yes, Narrative Magazine is technically a publication but it looks like a directory when you click over to it. I will allow that there is a nuance of meaning here that I’m not picking up.
Reading fees are pretty common in the literary magazine world (and I don’t think anyone makes a living off writing for lit mags–their purpose is to enhance the literary cachet of English professors and literary novelists and the like, not provide a living for journalists). Narrative Magazine at least pays pretty decently compared to most lit mags.
Narrative, like most serious lit mags, charges a reading fee, and it’s definitely not an article directory. The reading fee serves a dual purpose of funding the publication and pre-weeding out utter dreck. As Melissa alluded to, it’s more the the literary writer than the freelance journalist, though with narrative nonfiction, memoir, personal essay, and biography certainly could go either way depending on the style of the writing.
I don’t devote a ton of time to trying to crack lit mags myself, but I do hope in the future to be able to get a few lit mag credits for my resume. And they are one of the few places to publish short memoir and personal essays.
And as a reader, some lit mags publish really amazing writing–I’m a big fan of Alimentum, which is all about food (and they publish folks like Oliver Sacks), and Isotope (for “literary science and nature writing”).