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Submissions wanted (personals) | $300 per piece
🕑 Added 2025-10-02 20:22:14 +0000 UTCCOMPANY/PUBLICATION: NARRATIVELY
If you’re a fan of Narratively, you know that we are all about the BIG story. We like an epic narrative that unfolds in several acts and consists of vivid, cinematic scenes. But part of what we like, too, is a unique perspective. We want to be surprised and delighted — we want to not see it coming. And sometimes that looks like one delicious slice of pie rather than the whole thing…
Enter The Personals. These first-person pieces still meet two of the main criteria for Narratively stories: They’re about something super unique and interesting, and they’re rooted in detailed and colorful scenes. BUT they instead focus on one moment, one day, one week, one summer, etc. (And consequently, they’re much shorter.) We want your best pieces about a surprising moment, a split-second, life-changing decision, an upside-down view of something that we, as a society, are used to looking at head-on. Send us your story about that time you decided at the last second to leave the altar and make a go of it with your unforbidden love instead, the stranger who gave you advice that changed the trajectory of your life forever, that time you confronted your bully 25 years later only to learn about the hardship they were going through at the time.
What The Personals Is: You can tell us a story on a subject we’ve heard about before, but give us a unique way in.
What The Personals Isn’t: We love a good internal-based story like everyone else, a writer working out their opinion or recent revelation on the page, but that is not what we’re looking for here. We want active, exciting first-person stories that revolve around dramatic scenes and moments.
A few Personals pieces and stories we’ve done in the past that are good examples of what we’re looking for:
The Man Who Betrayed Me Was Also the Man Who Loved Me (1,820)
Unburying My Mother’s Secret (2,185)
I Was Taught to Hate My Lesbian Neighbors. They Took Me In Anyway (1,500 words)
I’m Not an Asian Stereotype, But I Play One on TV (1,400 words)
Why I Apologized to My Rapist (1,500 words)
DETAILS:
Pitches? Drafts? We are only accepting submissions for these at this time.
Word Count: Ideal length for full drafts is between 1,000 and 1,500 words. Please don’t send anything longer than 2,200 words — longer drafts will not be considered.
Deadline: We’re considering stories on a rolling basis.
Rate: $300
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CONTACT INFORMATION:
Submissions: Via Submittable
Website: http://narratively.com/
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