How to Submit
Contributions that encourage collective learning on cis and trans women, and non-binary people’s stories and community storytelling methods are welcome through specific ‘calls for submissions’ or as part of rolling submissions.
Throughout the year you can submit profiles of storytellers or reviews of books/ writings by racialized cis, trans women or non-binary people. If selected your piece will be featured on the writing women Instagram page and on our online journal here. These submissions are unpaid.
Specific calls for submissions are released one to two times a year, and are focused on a specific theme. Selected pieces in this category are featured across our platforms and paid 50 USD or the equivalent amount in your local currency.
Guidelines for Rolling Submissions
We accept original creative non-fiction narratives on women storytellers, or book reviews. Particular areas of interest are:
- Profiles of racialized women storytellers whose work and life you would like to explore. See our Library of Feminist Legacies section for ideas/past features. Storytellers can include writers, oral storytellers, poets, comic makers, textile makers, tattooists, academics, or more.
- Books reviews of fiction or nonfiction written by racialized women, translated works and writings from lesser known writers is especially welcome.
- Reviews of women-centred shows, videos, plays, poetry or podcasts.
- Written submissions should be no more than 1000 words
- We’ll work with you on small editions or suggestions but keep in mind this is a small outfit trying to curate community submissions as transparently as possible. If you are featuring historical information please review for accuracy and include sources and references.
- If you have visuals you would like to use please attach them to your email submission as jpeg or png files in high resolution. Historical photos can be as they are.
- If you don’t have a visual, we’ll work on an image to represent your piece together.
- Please source references, and credit any photographs or art.
Calls for Submissions
Current Call: Women, Labour, Resistance
Every year it feels we are dragged further into the hellish imagination of an unchecked ruling class, but every year, powerful shows of resistance are forged by ordinary people. More than often it is ordinary women at the margins of class, caste, gender, race and more, who pour their labour into dreaming new worlds into being. This call is an attempt to honour these voices, recognize this labour, and to share these stories so they may light more fires, and make real, new dreams.
This call is guest edited by Anjali Chauhan, and we welcome pieces that explore what ‘labour’ and ‘resistance’ mean in critical feminist contexts, and how women practice resistance. Writers may consider how colonial and capitalist labour systems devalue women’s contributions, critiques of sexual, gender, or caste-based divsions of labour or diverse forms of resistance – ranging from quiet acts of everyday defiance, to collective movements for justice.
Submissions from people with lived experiences of labour struggles are especially welcome. We accept life stories with socio-economic or political critique, essays, photo essays, or creative nonfiction, between 1200-1500 words. Please reference all sources and provide photo credits where necessary. All selected pieces will be paid $50 USD or the equivalent in local currency.
Email submissions to people@writingwomen.co. The deadline to submit is December 22 2024
Previous calls are listed below to offer an idea of what we have worked on in the past.
