Assignment 9 - Literary Magazine Review

I looked through a handful of magazines to find one that I truly enjoyed and felt I would actually read outside of class. There were several good ones I came across, but one online magazine I found really caught my eye. I chose to write about Narrative Magazine, which is one of the leading online literary magazines (www.narativemagazine.com). It gets released three times a year, with issues coming out in the Spring, Fall, and Winter of each year. On their website, they publish poetry, fiction and non-fiction from many different authors, both well-known and emerging. They are a non-profit organization headed by Carol Edgarian and Tom Jenks (www.narrativemagazine.info). Narrative has an online library of both new and old literature that is free and easily accessible, being especially effective in today's fast-advancing digital age.

From the first glimpse of the home page, you can tell that this site is well put together and is very easy to use. You can search the site by author if you know who you're looking for, or you can browse by literature type. They have several different categories including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, cartoons, interviews, contests and others that I didn't find in many of the other magazines I browsed through. There are so many features and sections to look through that it'd be impossible to go through all of it. They have a 'story of the week' and 'poem of the week' feature that I'm sure gets a lot of hits and they were the first pieces that I chose to read. You have the option to submit your own work and there are cash prizes for winners of seasonal contests. I saw an add for the opportunity to win as much as $6500 in prizes. That's reason enough to sign up for a free membership and take advantage of what this magazine has to offer.

You know it's official when you see the "Narrative Store". They are a non-profit organization but they take donations and they have a store that sells digital books as well as hard copies, clothes, accessories and DVD's. Overall, I think this is a great online literary magazine. It has amazing depth and awesome features that allow you to explore a whole new world of literature that you never knew existed! I would recommend this site to any and everybody interested in writing and reading poetry and stories.