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The Narrative Arc

Medium’s best creative nonfiction — memoirs and personal essays. Welcoming writers from every walk of life.

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Karen Fayeth in The Narrative Arc

A small maple leave that is green in the middle and red on the edges.

Trash Piles, Wildfires, and Metaphors Are All Things I Found In My Driveway Today

The last day of…

Annie Forbes Cooper in The Narrative Arc

Green die on red table, a gambling photo

SEPTEMBER CHANGES

Rolling the Dice on New York City

Banking on the promise of new…

Debra Urbacz in The Narrative Arc

A Sudden Illness Forced Me to Change Pace

Braving to step out of the race

Image shows a rocky outcrop with a calm sea in the background. There are cliffs at the far end of the bay with shafts of sunlight shining down and hitting the sea.

Chevie Hanssler in The Narrative Arc

This photo shows bicycles parked in front of a canal in Holland.

SEPTEMBER WRITING PROMPT | TRANSITIONS

Living Abroad Gave Me a New Perspective and Made Me Self-Reliant

Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles in The Narrative Arc

A bud about to bloom in a garden

NONFICTION | MEMOIR | THIS HAPPENED TO ME

Growing Up, Change Was the Only Constant in My Life

Meg Vardy in The Narrative Arc

Internal of a histoic stone building with large archways and a glass staircase

WRITING PROMPT — CHANGE

It’s Not Me, Academia. It’s You

Walking away from the job of my…

Julie Hall in The Narrative Arc

Blurry coloured dots

After Losing Everything, I Never Thought I Could Lose It All Again

Trauma and change go hand in hand

Ellen Eastwood in The Narrative Arc

Young woman with long brown hair looking at camera

SEPTEMBER CHANGES | THE NARRATIVE ARC WRITING COMPETITION

Home Wasn’t Safe. How I Found Safety From…

Chaotically Lottie in The Narrative Arc

Image of clouds against a blue sky

LIFE CHANGES

Living With Our Heads in the Clouds

When all else fails, there’s always a…

Cathy Strine in The Narrative Arc

Three separate elevated Pods, with vegetation and palm trees

SEPTEMBER CHANGES

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Our world spins at a pace we cannot control