“I’m looking for first-person narrative essays - personal, flash, reported, illustrated, anything with a coherent storytelling arc. The articles they publish tend to be between 1,000 and 4,000 words.Īccording to the managing editor’s guide to pitching: However, reports indicate a range of around 10 to 15 cents per word. They also pay writers payment is negotiated. Their writers have gained book contracts after being published in the magazine, as well as been published in Best American Essays, won Pushcart Prizes, and much more. In conclusion, I leave you with a very sincere “Oh Well.” Thank you.Catapult is a magazine of narrative non-fiction and fiction. Of course now that I think about it, I realize that all of this time could have been spent listening to an actual Indian.
#CATAPULT MAGAZINE FULL#
I extend to you all a pat on the head, a half-smile full of empathy, and a promise to “do more,” which I likely won’t keep. They have always been here, and they will always be here, which is incredibly inconvenient to my self-made illusions of belonging to this place. So, with all that in mind: I hereby acknowledge the original caretakers of this land, from whom I probably descend, I don’t know. And I know that’s what it takes to make an Indian. But I have the blood in me somewhere, I’ve been told. Yes, I understand that I’m not “connected” to the “community,” nor do I know anything about the language, politics, mindset, circumstances, lifestyle, economic conditions, humor, or general citizenry of the Blackfoot or whoever. My great great grandmother was a Blackfoot or something I’m not sure. I’m part Native American myself you know. And is it incredibly unfair that while I inherited the privilege, the contemporary Natives of this land inherited all the darkness that comes with a couple/few hundred years of trauma and terror? OF COURSE. Do I directly benefit from the enslavement and genocide of the original people of this land? Absolutely. Especially this time of year.īut for me, I’m staying. And hopefully, THEY make the hard choice and go back to Europe. I’ll do everything in my power to make sure my children will feel nice and guilty about the whole thing. But why should I or my children pay for the sins of my forebears? We didn’t commit the murders upon which this country was built. My family has been here for tens or even dozens of years. Would it possibly be the right and noble thing to do to pack it up and go back to Europe? Absolutely. You’re welcome.įurthermore, I hereby pledge to do everything in my power, with the exception of giving up my power and privilege, to ALWAYS acknowledge the poor dark bastards who’ve propped my family up. A lot of brown people died for me to get to where I am today.
And that privilege doesn’t come from nowhere.
Because in being in front of you here tonight, I’m privileged. And, if they didn’t kill the original people of this specific place HERE, then I’m sure they did their damnedest to some other tribe. In the spirit of this acknowledgement, I should also note that I have no real idea whether or not my VERY RECENT ancestors had anything to do with the deaths of the original inhabitants of this land.
We acknowledge the ostentatiousness of saluting the people whose blood and spirits originally came from this land, but who my ancestors, directly or not, surreptitiously killed. We here at the ( insert organization here ) acknowledge the first peoples of this land, the ( insert Native nation here ).
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