Narrative Magazine

San Francisco’s Narrative Magazine is a platform that once received from me a short story and possibly a poem for a contest.

Today, the magazine sent out an email with the headline, “Stand Up to Book Banning”. The political slogan was attached to winners’ photos in the magazine’s high school writing contests, 2015-2023, which came with prize monies.

First, we recognize a slant when people say book banning, words that are a veneer for sexual content.

Second, we know what is meant by “underserved communities.” As one winner said, “I am a descendant of Aztec kings.”

“Just curious, young man, did you do an ancestry search, or are you boasting?”

Not one white boy is among those pictured. All kinds of people write good stories, but ethnicity, which is immaterial, is now a barrier.

This degradation in the mainstream publishing world is widespread, very uncatholic, which is described by powerthesaurus.org, as, “of or associated with a province; limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; not wide; not open or affording passage or access.”

Just look up book agents and find out. ​The only thing material you will find in my English category are classic short stories and poems, what I have assigned to students.

Solution: look at the copyright page to determine who the book publisher is and what the company has published and do not buy.

I do not recommend this magazine.

I unsubscribed.