PN – Call for Submissions to Tangled Locks Journal. Theme: We Could Almost Touch It

We Could Almost Touch It, aims to amplify the voices of women and delve into the state of women since the 2016 presidential election. Similar to our Featured Abortion Stories, this series is designed to provide a platform for women to share their experiences and stories.

Throughout this year, we will be accepting submissions and publishing essays, memoir excerpts, creative nonfiction, poetry, zines, artwork and visual essays on a rolling basis. In 2025, we plan to compile a collection of work from this series into a book that documents our experiences, aspirations, and struggles. By submitting your work for online publication, you will also be eligible for possible publication in the printed anthology.

We are actively seeking original work that narrates our journeys toward genuine equality while highlighting the impact of inequality on our lives and outlining our efforts to resist and combat it.

We invite all of you to submit your work. For this special series, we will waive all submission fees. You are also invited to join our community of writers and readers by signing up for our newsletter and following us on social media.

• Work must cover at least one of the themes: women’s rights, losses since the 2016 election, and what will turn things around.
• Essays, memoir excerpts, and CNF be up to 1500 words in length. Poetry with special formatting may be challenging to reproduce on our webpage but would still be considered for the print publication.
• We can accept previously published work as long as the rights have reverted back to the author. Please let us know where and how to credit the first publication.
• Writers may choose to publish anonymously.

There is no fee for submission.