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The 2025 Narratively Memoir Prize is Now Open
Submit your personal essay for a chance to win $3,000, publication on Narratively—plus in print!—and have your story read by our #1 New York Times…
Oct 29
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Narratively
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Listen: Meet the Paranormal Moms Society
Listen now (16 mins) | These suburban mothers are deadly serious about chasing ghosts.
Oct 28
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Narratively
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15:40
How Pluto Helped Me Accept My Trans Partner's New Name
Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love calling my husband by his masculine moniker…with a little help from everyone's favorite dwarf planet.
Oct 24
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Lisa Grossman
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The First Walk Without Dogs
Read the winning story from our flash essay + art contest!
Oct 17
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Christine Ochs-Naderer
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I Was Drowning in My Marriage—An Impossible Crush Helped Save Me
It took seeing myself through someone else’s eyes to be able to realize my full potential and make the difficult choice I’d known I needed to make all…
Oct 10
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Nikki Campo
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Stripping on the Side
A nonprofit intern counts down the hours until she can shed her office attire in a Times Square gentlemen’s club.
Oct 2
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Melissa Petro
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September 2025
WATCH: 28 Minutes with “A Missing Child of the 1980s”
Scott Rankin opens up about his traumatic lifelong journey after being kidnapped by his own father—then forced to live a secret double life for six…
Sep 28
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Brendan Spiegel
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38:34
Waiting by the Phone
At 15, Kenny called me out of the blue and asked me to be his girlfriend. The fact that we spoke from our respective homes nightly and hadn’t yet met…
Sep 19
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Cathy Alter
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28 Minutes with "A Missing Child of the 1980s"
...first, check out this incredible deep dive if you haven't had a chance to read it yet.
Sep 17
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Brendan Spiegel
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A Highly Forbidden Romance
After a devastating loss, it was clear that my marriage of 15 years was dissolving. Then, in my early 50s, I found love in the most unexpected place.
Sep 12
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Bar Scott
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A Missing Child of the 1980s, All Grown Up
Scott Rankin’s father hatched an elaborate plot to kidnap him and start a secret life, while his mother searched desperately for six years. That was…
Sep 5
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Paul C. Robb
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August 2025
Our Perfectly Pretend Plane Romance
I met someone mid-flight and we immediately hit it off. Rather than try to keep in touch, we imagined what our lives would have been like if we were…
Aug 29
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Katharine Coldiron
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