CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: TAKING POWER: A Special Issue

TAKING POWER: A Special Issue

Call for submissions, women writers. Eckleburg invites writers who identify as women to submit fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, hybrid and experimental work for TAKING POWER, a special print issue.

We want work that looks the world in the eye.

As Gloria Steinem wrote: “Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.”

Take the page. Take the space. Take the power.

What We’re Looking for in TAKING POWER

TAKING POWER seeks writing and art that interrogate what it means for women to claim authority over their bodies, stories, identities, labor, language, desire, anger, ambition, and lives.

We are interested in work that takes risks—formally, intellectually, emotionally, politically. Send us the beautiful and the difficult. The funny, furious, intimate, unruly, strange, transgressive, tender, and impossible to categorize. Send us women who refuse the roles written for them and women reckoning with the roles they have inherited. Send us work about power possessed, power denied, power surrendered, power stolen, power survived, and power taken.

We welcome fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, microfiction, hybrid and experimental work, interviews, and visual art from emerging and established writers and artists who identify as women.

We are not looking for one definition of womanhood, feminism, or power. We are looking for voices with something at stake.

Take the page. Take the space. Take the power.

GUIDELINES

• • Female identifying writers/artists
  • Prose/hybrid: up to 5k
  • Poetry: up to 5 poems
  • Visual: High resolution images, at least 300 dpi
  • Read the full guidelines

SUBMIT

RIGHTS & COMPENSATION

RIGHTS | If accepted, you are granting Eckleburg first North American serial, promotional, non-exclusive anthology (online and possibly print), and archival rights. Copyright reverts to the author upon publication. If the piece is subsequently published in another venue, we ask you to source Eckleburg as first publication. 

PAYMENT | Print contributors receive a free copy. Print contributors who are also Eckleburg award winners receive award prize money up to $1000. 

RESPONSES | Response times usually run three months or longer; however, we sometimes respond within the day. If we haven’t responded by six months’ time, please contact us here.

AWARDS | Editors will nominate works at appropriate times through the year. Individual authors/poets who are nominated will be contacted privately.

WITHDRAWALS | Please withdraw your submission through your personal Submittable account created upon submitting. This is your personal account and Eckleburg editors do not have access to it.

THE SELFIE INTERVIEW | All contributors past, present and future are invited to complete The Selfie Interview. The Selfie Interview is also open to contributors as well as readers/writers who have not been published at Eckleburg. Share your Selfie Interview with our 10,000+ and growing Eckleburg community.

ECKLEBURG BOOK CLUB | Open to all writers, readers and contributors. (Currently not accepting self-published titles.) Submit to the Eckleburg Book Club and share your title with our 10,000+ and growing Eckleburg community.

EVENTS LISTING | Open to all writers, readers and contributors. Have a reading coming up? A gallery showing or performance? Shout it out to our 10,000+ Eckleburg community.

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Eckleburg was founded in 2010 as an online and print literary and arts journal. We take our title from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and include the full archives of our predecessor Moon Milk Review. Our aesthetic is eclectic, literary mainstream to experimental. We appreciate fusion forms including magical realist, surrealist, meta- realist and realist works with an offbeat spin. We value character-focused storytelling and language and welcome both edge and mainstream with punch aesthetics. We like humor that explores the gritty realities of world and human experiences. Our issues include original content from both emerging and established writers, poets, artists and comedians such as authors, Roxane Gay, Rick Moody, Cris Mazza, Steve Almond, Stephen Dixon, poets, Moira Egan and David Wagoner and actor/comedian, Zach Galifianakis.