Narratively
Narratively, Jerry Portwood, Jeff Maysh, Richelle Gregg, Tara B Fraser, Angie Chuang, Momster (Ellen Eldridge), Jacob Russell, Gabrielle Denman, Melissa Maldonado-Salcedo, PhD, Alison Head, Joseph Eastburn, Katharine Sarrafi, Jake Hall, Jennifer Chapman, Heather K.M. Lewis, Aj Hannah, Chris Hartnick, Gina Rich, Jonathan Williamson, Amy Choudhury MartinDiscover extraordinary true stories celebrating the diversity of humanity.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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Why Did Three Ordinary People Become Bank Robbers?
It can be tempting to think of economic collapses as being on the softer end of the crisis scale. Compared to the concrete misery of wars and natural disasters, they can seem a bit abstract, more of a spreadsheet disaster. When Lebanon’s ec...
That Time I Learned an Unforgettable Lesson From a 12-Year-Old Monk
We recently held a contest over at our sister site, , in which we asked you about a time when you learned from someone unexpected. After tearing up through many of your flash pieces, we found this was the one we kept coming back to. It’s a...
I Tried Selling My Body for Money—I Was Surprised By What I Found
Living in close proximity to sex workers during my years in Barcelona piqued my interest in giving it a go myself. Only when I brushed up against that life was I able to see it clearly.
Jerry Portwood has been a friend of the Narratively f...
Concrete, Chaos and Chrysanthemums: How Urban Gardens Saved My Lower East Side
Photos courtesy Jardin del Paraiso, Nelsy Maldonado, and the author.
This story is part of our ongoing series From the Ground Up, a collaboration between Narratively and ScottsMiracle-Gro exploring the lives, memories, and connectio...
Woman Versus Nature
Photos courtesy the author and James Martin.
This story is part of our ongoing series From the Ground Up, a collaboration between Narratively and ScottsMiracle-Gro exploring the lives, memories, and connections rooted in the yards,...
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Authors
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Jerry Portwood is the founder of The Queer Love Project, which explores LGBTQ+ stories about relationships. He was a top editor at Rolling Stone, Out magazine, and New York Press. He's a longtime instructor at the New School's writing program.
Plants might be the best philosophers on Earth. I’m a horticulturist exploring what they know. "What Would a Plant Do?" shares their wisdom.
I am a writer and trying to get better. I am living with borderline personality disorder. I am Mom to two. Memoir. Narrative nonfiction. www.EllenEldridge.com
Writer and journalist living in Beirut. Author of 1010, Falling More Slowly, a Substack about fathering and being a perpetual foreigner.
Love, Zen, and the quiet art of returning - from the middle of motherhood, suburbia, and being human.
Artist, Anthropologist, Writer, Educator
Alison Head is an avid gardener living in Sonoma County, an hour north of the San Francisco Bridge.
Author, daughter, sister, friend. Living in the Pacific Northwest.
Heather K.M. Lewis is a Philadelphia-based writer and educator. She writes speculative fiction, romance, and creative nonfiction.
A writer, traveler, and parent that falls on too many spectrums to count
Christopher Hartnick is a pediatric airway surgeon at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye and Ear, and the founder of Careways Collaborative, a nonprofit building critical care capacity in children's hospitals across Latin America.
I write about relationships, health, and travel. You can usually find me scouring my Wisconsin backyard for interesting birds, pitching story ideas to editors, and fueling myself with coffee and chocolate.
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