Weekend Writing Opportunity
This weekend’s writing opportunity is from GirlChild Press and goes out to all the female writers out there. Michelle Sewell, founder and editor of Girlchild Press, is passionate about bringing diverse, authentic girls’ and women’s voices to the public, AND she’s incredibly interested in fresh, new voices. Girlchild Press whetted my appetite for publication when it published my poem, “Angry Catholic Woman,” in its most recent anthology, Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta!
This next anthology will be an exploration of women and the short story. I may submit to it myself if my NaNo decides it ultimately wants to be a short story after all. So, without further ado, here is the call for submissions.
Woman’s Work: The Short Stories
Part of the problem is that I treat writing like a privilege not an obligation. It comes after everything, after all my other responsibilities.
Maegan “la Mala” Ortiz
My Writing LifeWoman’s Work: The Short Stories is a celebration of what happens when women finally get to the page. About the extraordinary stories that spill out of these extraordinary, and often ignored, storytellers during those stolen moments when she surrenders to her burning desire to write, to create.
GirlChild Press seeks the fresh and exciting voices of writers that can entice the reader with intricate tales of shapeshifters and evil doppelgangers, rock and roll princesses in twisted fairy tales, broken gunslingers in deserted western towns, and political murder mysteries that lead to sex in illicit places.
We will follow her through rabbit holes and pop up as mermaids dressed in camouflage, all while reveling in a romance that bloomed on a long-forgotten battlefield in outer space. Surprises will await us at every corner. We will discover what is passionate, and pure, and complicated and be glad for it.
Ultimately, Woman’s Work is about women as master storytellers.
Submission Requirements
• Deadline: March 1, 2009
• No more than 2 previously unpublished short stories per submission
• Simultaneous submissions okay, but notify if your work is accepted elsewhere
• 4,000 words or less
• Double spaced
• NO POETRYAll contributors will receive a copy of the anthology and will be invited to read at the book launch in 2009.
Electronic Submissions
Girlchildpress@aol.com
Title of submission should be placed in the subject line.
Please include your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, and short bio with your submission.Snail Mail
GirlChild Press
PO Box 93
Hyattsville, MD 20781Please include your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, and short bio with your submission.