{"id":5497,"date":"2024-07-06T18:22:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T22:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=5497"},"modified":"2024-07-06T18:22:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T22:22:17","slug":"n-call-for-submissions-to-herstry-its-kind-of-a-funny-story","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/event\/n-call-for-submissions-to-herstry-its-kind-of-a-funny-story\/","title":{"rendered":"N &#8211; Call for Submissions to HerStry: &#8220;It\u2019s Kind of a Funny Story&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Limited Demographic.<\/strong> Submissions are restricted to &#8220;women identifying persons, including bigender\/polygender persons, cisgender women, intergender persons\/intersex persons, non-binary persons\/gender non-conforming persons, transgender women\/transfeminine persons, two-spirit.&#8221;<\/h4>\n<p>You wanna hear something funny?\u00a0In September we\u2019re looking for your stories of mishaps and mistakes to make us laugh and cringe. We want to know about the time you locked yourself out of the house in your underwear and had to borrow your next door neighbors phone. We want to know about the road trip gone wrong, the family vacation from hell, and the time your mother-in-law almost burnt down the house on Thanksgiving. Make us laugh. Make us be glad it wasn\u2019t us. Tell us about the time you accidentally sent your crush a text professing your love for them.<\/p>\n<p>** HerStry is always happy to share stories anonymously\u2014if your story is selected for publication, simply let your editor know you would not like your name shared **<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE RULES:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All stories must be true and about you.<\/li>\n<li>Stories must follow the theme in some way, interpretations can be wide.<\/li>\n<li>Stories must stay between 500\u20133,000 words.<\/li>\n<li>Documents should be double spaced, 12Pt font with 1 inch margins.<\/li>\n<li>Submissions must be in .doc or .docx form\u2014<strong>we do not accept PDFs<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Stories are read blind. Please DO NOT put any identifying material on your manuscript. Manuscripts that don\u2019t follow this rule will be automatically disqualified without being read. We realize personal essays may contain your name; a first name is fine.<\/li>\n<li>Please include a third person bio. Cover letters are fine, but not necessary (we don\u2019t read them, we\u2019re more interested in what you\u2019ve written).<\/li>\n<li>Please submit\u00a0<strong>only once<\/strong>\u00a0per theme.<\/li>\n<li>We do not accept previously published stories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>HerStry centers the experiences of women identifying persons. We\u2019re looking for work from bigender\/polygender persons, cisgender women, intergender persons\/intersex persons, nonbinary persons\/gender non-conforming persons, transgender women\/transfeminine persons, two spirit. In other words, if you are a cis man, please refrain from submitting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0WANT PERSONALIZED FEEDBACK?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can now receive helpful feedback by selecting the \u201cpersonalized critique\u201d option on our submissions page. While getting your work critiqued does not guarantee publication, we can help make it great for your next submissions, whether it\u2019s to us or someone else.<\/p>\n<p><em>$3 submission fee goes toward keeping HerStry sustainable. 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