Medium’s best creative nonfiction — memoirs and personal essays. Welcoming writers from every walk of life.
Note from the editor
The Narrative Arc publishes memoir, creative nonfiction, and exceptional personal essays. Please follow us and see our submissions guidelines to apply. A few caveats: we don’t accept work that reads like AI. We want to read your human words, crafted with thought, feeling, and human experience. Tell us a story. Not accepting poetry, but Imogene’s Notebook is! head over and apply. Got grief? The Wind Phone. Thanks so much!
I’m a wife, a mom, an artist, a writer and a hopeless optimist in the face of terrible odds. I believe in love, goodness and a future where we can all have joy.
I’m about dogs, our lovable and peculiar families, business, and writing in a wide lane, including fiction. I’m a positivity washer too. www.jillebstein.com
Want to read about slippers and baths, farting in a spaceship and ageing ungracefully? Read on, you've come to the right place. 4 x top writer, 10 x boosted.
Mom of two, wife of one, hoping to share a bit of humor and hot opinions with fellow my humans. Follow me on Instagram at mothers_out_loud! Nope it’s not porn.
I write fiction, essays, and poetry. I write what I want to read; I read what I want to write. I’ve been at it since I was a kid; I’ll be at it when I’m ancient
Eclectic writer. Ovarian cancer survivor. My interests include humor, health, grief, personal essays and entertainment. Please follow me on my journey.
To live in a world of peace and justice we must imagine it first. For this, we need artists and writers. I write to reach for the edges of what is possible.
Salty bitch, mom of six. Founder of Sweary Mommy. Failed model. Essayist and humorist. Words in YourTango, Pregnant Chicken, Monterey Bay Parent, & Nameberry.
I'm a published author. GENRES: non-fiction & poetry PASSIONS: books, dogs,horses, playing pickle ball, hiking & knitting. ~ What hurts you blesses you ~ Rumi
I believe YOLO, but not in the hippie dare devil kind of way, although I am a bit of a hippie on most days, and I dare to go up against my fears often.
At 68, I started a new chapter in my life: I moved to France. Alone. It turned out to be quite the page-turner. Still is — even when age insists on a part.
Life experiences intrigue me. Parenting| bereavement|memoir,|travel writer. I’m a coffee lover, I keep grounded by walking in nature, Tai Chi, and Yoga.
I write nonfiction, fiction, and sort-of-sort-of-not fiction. Whatever I'm writing at the moment is always me giving a peek. Top writer in Humor and History.
Seeking improvement as a writer and human. Email: KLSimmons.medium@gmail.com. Owner of the publications: Taking Off, Pure Fiction and Interracial Relations.
Writer, actor, creator. Human being. A bit of an outsider, like some albino squirrel often watching life from the branches, and documenting what he sees.
Retired these days but still working to improve myself. An avid photographer I am always learning to look at the world in new ways while telling a good story.
Jenna Zark’s book Crooked Lines: A Single Mom's Jewish Journey received first prize (memoir) from Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Learn more at jennazark.com
Karen is a domestic violence survivor who became an activist in 1982. Her book is about her experiences and lessons learned. her hope is to empower women
Family Med Physician/Learner/Reader. Writing to express my thoughts, sometimes teach, and mostly learn. Editor of Flipping the Script/Patient Perspectives
Wordstruck poet & storyteller. Writing on loss & desire. Published in various journals & anthologies. Lover of prose poetry, art & ekphrasis. EIC @ ArtMusing
Survivor of life’s mind fucks. Emotional mercernary picking up the remnants of my former self through reflections on sobriety, narcissistic abuse, and identity.
Stay-at-home-dad who "retired" from a 12-year career in finance at the age of 35. Curious thinker with an opinion on nearly everything and is here to share it.
✍Well-being, feminism & personal growth. Childfree & owner of Life Without Children. Lover of trail running & dogs. Also at abnormallynormal.substack.com
I seek new experiences and share my life as an artist, traveler, foodie, gardener, and serious steward of our beloved planet. Life is short, let's get busy!
I am every woman. I write about the irony of life, friendship, authenticity, aging, and life experiences with humor and honesty. My Motto: Be Your Own Anchor!
Nice to internet meet you. | Named after an Irish ballad, destined to spit yarn & listen to you with delight. Subscribe & I'll email you a storytelling guide!
I am sometimes hilarious and always from Canada. I live in the UK now. I don't fully understand the world I live in, but it's never understood me, either.
Still trying for the words to help us do & feel good things. Owner of Reviews for Medium Featured Books. I write life stories & about politics / social issues.
They/them. Gender fluid person of multiple identities. Always finding new passions. Writing, music, creative coding, digital art, spirituality, and witchcraft.
Exploring identity & culture thru the jaded lens of a biracial sea hag, I pen memoir, personal narrative, & genealogy as a means of survival & recovery.
Travel Writer and Photographer | Published in National Geographic Traveller Magazine and Outside Online | all photographs are my own | IG @mattnelly.jpg
M.A. in Theology, obsessed with reading, hiking, and the search for meaning. I also write books and have been an editor for 25 years. NatalieHanemann.com
Old Soul Alchemist. Shapeshifter. I use imagery and imagination as agents of transformation. Owner of pubs: Word Herding, Old Soul Alchemy, and Read Write Love
I write travel narratives, fiction and non-fiction and in a parallel life I lecture in Applied Linguistics. I’d rather be on a train in Europe. Original photos.
I write creative nonfiction: personal essays and memoir. After twenty-five years as an English professor, I have left academia to focus fully on my writing.
I write of life as a young boy and as a 77-year-old man. Lover of life and those in it, especially family friends and those in need of a kind word or hug.
Raised by trolls in northern Sweden, now settled on the California coast a stone’s throw south of the Oregon border. Here I meditate and write. Wolfstuff.com.
I’m here to share my stories, maybe offer some insight. Sometimes we’ll laugh, sometimes we’ll cry. It’s all the same to me: connection. I hope you enjoy!
Geriatric millennial. Reading Rainbow alumni. Tater tot enthusiast. Neurodivergent. Sometimes funny, always dramatic. Writing about whatever I trip over in life