Deadline: 1 September 2010
Geographical coverage: undisclosed
Reading Fee: none
Accepts (genre): essays, fiction, poetry on feminist activism
Prize/Payment: $.02/word plus two copies
Contact: info@makeshiftmag.com
Make/shift—a magazine creating, documenting, and engaging with contemporary feminist culture and activism—is seeking submissions for its ninth issue (spring/summer 2011).
Issue 8, due out in September, will feature radical visions of m/othering and community caregiving; interviews with Cheri Honkala (Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign), poet Shailja Patel, and bodyworker/organizer Pa’ti Garcia; an excerpt from Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s memoir in progress; poetry by Kimberly Alidio, Amy Dryansky, and Carol Mirakove; notes on happiness by T Fleischmann; a call to rethink postpartum-depression screening; the Palestine Women’s Museum; European comics zinesters; and much, much more.
For Issue 9, we are seeking
—investigative journalism
—photojournalism
—critical essays
—personal essays
—profiles of feminists activists, artists, projects, and thinkers
—fiction and poetry
—art and photography
—book, maga/zine, film, art, and event reviews
—hybrid pieces
We are also seeking content for the following regular make/shift features:
—Everyday Actions: scenes of feminist action in everyday life (100 to 400 words)
—Documents: documents of feminist discourse in progress (doodle-covered meeting minutes, e-mail exchanges, and the like)
—Make/Plans: listings for our international calendar of upcoming events (submit info for events occurring between March and September 2011)
—Participate: opportunities for people to get active in art, activist, and community projects (deadlines should be ongoing or between March and September 2011)
Make/shift pays $.02/word plus two copies.
Send pitches or full-draft submissions to info@makeshiftmag.com. Please submit no more than three poems or two pieces of prose at a time. Feel free to pitch multiple ideas at once. We accept pitches and submissions on a rolling basis, but priority for Issue 9 will be given to those received by September 1, 2010.
More information here.
Geographical coverage: undisclosed
Reading Fee: none
Accepts (genre): essays, fiction, poetry on feminist activism
Prize/Payment: $.02/word plus two copies
Contact: info@makeshiftmag.com
Make/shift—a magazine creating, documenting, and engaging with contemporary feminist culture and activism—is seeking submissions for its ninth issue (spring/summer 2011).
Issue 8, due out in September, will feature radical visions of m/othering and community caregiving; interviews with Cheri Honkala (Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign), poet Shailja Patel, and bodyworker/organizer Pa’ti Garcia; an excerpt from Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s memoir in progress; poetry by Kimberly Alidio, Amy Dryansky, and Carol Mirakove; notes on happiness by T Fleischmann; a call to rethink postpartum-depression screening; the Palestine Women’s Museum; European comics zinesters; and much, much more.
For Issue 9, we are seeking
—investigative journalism
—photojournalism
—critical essays
—personal essays
—profiles of feminists activists, artists, projects, and thinkers
—fiction and poetry
—art and photography
—book, maga/zine, film, art, and event reviews
—hybrid pieces
We are also seeking content for the following regular make/shift features:
—Everyday Actions: scenes of feminist action in everyday life (100 to 400 words)
—Documents: documents of feminist discourse in progress (doodle-covered meeting minutes, e-mail exchanges, and the like)
—Make/Plans: listings for our international calendar of upcoming events (submit info for events occurring between March and September 2011)
—Participate: opportunities for people to get active in art, activist, and community projects (deadlines should be ongoing or between March and September 2011)
Make/shift pays $.02/word plus two copies.
Send pitches or full-draft submissions to info@makeshiftmag.com. Please submit no more than three poems or two pieces of prose at a time. Feel free to pitch multiple ideas at once. We accept pitches and submissions on a rolling basis, but priority for Issue 9 will be given to those received by September 1, 2010.
More information here.
