Submissions | Writing a Liberatory Practice [A Lit Lib x Memoir Land collaboration]
Submissions are rolling!
⭐️UPDATE⭐️
Exciting news! We're thrilled to announce that we’re teaming up with for this column! This partnership is an incredible opportunity, offering a platform to showcase your work and $150 compensation for select accepted work.
Send in your very best!
We are currently open for submissions
We invite you to submit first person narrative essays that explore writing as a transformative and liberatory practice. We seek to illuminate the ways in which writing can be a powerful tool for personal and collective liberation, challenging oppressive structures and creating new possibilities for understanding, resistance, and healing.
We are interested in submissions that explore writing as:
A form of resistance and testimony
A method of personal and collective healing
A means of challenging dominant narratives
A space for reimagining social realities
An act of self-determination and empowerment
Submissions might address, but are not limited to:
Decolonial writing practices
Trauma recovery through writing
Community storytelling and oral histories
Writing as political activism
Intersectional approaches to narrative
Healing justice and writing
Transformative justice narratives
Indigenous storytelling and resistance
Disability narrative and representation
Queer and feminist writing methodologies
Submission Guidelines
Not following all guidelines will result in automatic disqualification. Only submissions by writers of the Global majority will be considered for publication.
Quoted from Wikipedia: "Global majority" is a collective term for people of African, Asian, indigenous, Latin American, or mixed-heritage backgrounds, who constitute approximately 85 percent of the global population. It has been used as an alternative to terms which are seen as racialized like "ethnic minority" and "person of color" (POC), or more regional terms like "visible minority" in Canada and "Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic" (BAME) in the United Kingdom.
Submissions must be complete, in English, and under 2000 words to be considered. No pitches, please!
Only 1 submission per submission period permitted.
Original, previously unpublished work only. This includes all forms of in print or online mediums.
Creative nonfiction, personal narratives, and hybrid forms welcome.
Attach your document in the following file forms: .doc, .docx, or pdf.
2,000 words maximum
Double-spaced, 12-point font
Include a 100-word author bio and brief abstract
Submissions in English
Submissions are rolling (or until we reach our first 100 submissions)
Simultaneous Submissions: We accept simultaneous submissions. Please contact us as soon as possible if your piece is accepted elsewhere. [literaryliberation@substack.com]
Compensation: Select work will be compensated up to $150. Becoming a paid member helps to directly pay for accepted work, among other things.
Exclusivity: We request exclusive first publication rights for accepted pieces for a period of three months (90 days). After this period, all rights revert back to the author, to reuse and republish as you wish with first publication being credited to Literary Liberation (accompanied by a link).
Response Time: We aim to respond to all submissions within 3 months. Thank you for your patience.
What does this mean? “Only submissions by writers of the Global majority will be considered for publication.”
I’m multiracial, Latinx/Indigenous/Black, and White. Am I included in the Global Majority? Asking for anyone like me, who is never quite sure where we belong (or don’t).