Open Submission Call: Send us your essays, interviews & pitches!

We're now a fully paying market! We want to publish columns, long form interviews and essays!

Sherisa de Groot, Literary Liberation, and Shawna Ayoub

May 26, 2026

∙ Paid

"Are you a writer finding your roots when it comes to privilege, access, ability, or place? Are your topics related to personal or public liberation? Lit Lib is seeking writers across marginalized groups for paid columns and essays exploring themes of liberation. The list is broad, so read on. And please share this call as much as possible. Your support keeps us going. Additionally, if you are able to become a paid subscriber, we offer multiple options. Paid subs generate pay for writers, scholarships, and support our small staff!"

- Shawna Ayoub

Literary Liberation is a learning and literary space centering writers, artists, cultural workers, and readers from the global majority. We’re excited to grow alongside voices that challenge, nurture, document, question, and imagine.

We’re seeking writers with strong perspectives, expansive curiosities, and ideas that are rooted in literature, culture, creativity, and liberation work. We want voices that feel alive on the page. Bring us your obsessions, your questions, your lived experience, your research, your experiments, your cultural analysis, your tenderness, your rigor.

All verticals have a word count of 2000 words minimum and pays $150 USD.
Include a short bio (100 words max) in third person with your submission.
Simultaneous submissions allowed. Please let us know as soon as a piece is accepted elsewhere.
We are interested only in original work; your work must not have been published elsewhere prior to submitting.

→We will not accept any essays written or generated in part by AI.←

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