Looking for another way to avoid reading stuff in print, or do you need another literary app for your shiny new iPad? Narrative Magazine has the solution.
Narrative is a robust print and online literary journal that publishes first rate fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by the likes of Rick Bass, Amy Tan, and Dean Young. This Spring–they’re not specifying a release date, for obvious, app-store-queue-related reasons–Narrative is launching an iPhone/ iPad app that will download the contents of the magazine to your mobile device for on-the-go, but not necessarily Internet-connected, reading.
To celebrate, Narrative has come up with a new genre of story, the iStory. Here’s how the magazine describes it: “An iStory is a short, dramatic narrative, fiction or nonfiction, up to 150 words long. We are particularly interested in works that give readers a strong sense of having read a full and complete story in a brief space.” It’s kinda like a Tweet, but with words instead of characters.
They’re holding a contest: Narrative is seeking submissions of iStories and they’ll pay $250 for each one they accept between now and the app launch, whenever that is. Click here for guidelines, and here for some sample iStories.