As you’ve hopefully heard, it’s one of our favorite times of the year: the 2026 Narratively Memoir Prize is now open for submissions. We can’t wait to see all the stories that come in from ordinary people around the world. Our first-ever Memoir Prize winner was this incredible story from Laura Green-Russell, who absolutely blew us all away with this piece—the first article she ever published!
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It’s not hard to see why Laura Green-Russell’s story stood out as the grand prize winner in our first-ever Narratively Memoir Prize.
