Here is the reason I have been offline the past two days. Check out this call for submissions, and add your own voice to the story:
Co-editors Megan Griffith-Greene and Stacey May Fowles are seeking submissions for an anthology for teen girls to be published by Tightrope Books in Spring 2009.
The anthology will include creative non-fiction essays by women and trans-identified adults about their formative experiences as teens, and is primarily intended for a youth audience. Specifically, we’re looking for submissions about how teen experiences (both positive and negative) shaped our writers’ lives and made them the people they are today.
This project is affiliated with Shameless magazine and is based on the magazine’s signature mix of smart, sassy, honest and inclusive writing. In keeping with the mandate of Shameless, we want to reach out to young female readers who are often ignored by mainstream media: freethinkers, queer youth, young women of colour, punk rockers, feminists, intellectuals, artists, and activists. We hope this book will open up a real dialogue about growing up female, creating a book that is pro-choice, queer-positive, sex-positive, girl-positive.
Please feel free to query us at anthology@shamelessmag.com for more information. If you have an idea or form that doesn’t fit within the above parameters, please feel free to pitch us.
People of all cultures, ages and preferences, published or unpublished, are encouraged to submit. We are looking for diverse, creative, original, thought provoking, entertaining, challenging, innovative, engaging stories for teen girls. We prefer creative non-fiction writing to academic-style writing.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Submissions should range from 500 to 2500 words, and should be double spaced on 8 1/2 X 11 white paper. Please make sure the pages are numbered. Please include your address, phone number, email address and a short bio on the manuscript. Please submit your essays via mail no later than April 18, 2008:
Shameless Magazine Anthology
P.O. Box 68548
360A Bloor St. W
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 1X1.