So to Speak

An intersectional feminist journal of language and art founded in 1993. http://www.sotospeakjournal.org

Our mission at So to Speak is to provide a digital and print platform to amplify the voices of BIPOC, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ people, nonbinary people, women, neurodivergent people, people of all different religions or none, migrants, refugees & immigrants (regardless of citizenship), and incarcerated writers.

10/08/2024

GMU students, mark your calendars for Submit-A-Thon 2024! 🌸☠️ 2 days of spooky sessions to polish your pieces and submit to literary journals

12/15/2023

Writers across the globe are being silenced for their support for Palestinians living under occupation. This blog call, CENSORED, is So to Speak’s effort to create a safe space for all writers affected by the ongoing genocide in Gaza to share their ideas, experiences, and voices.

We’re looking for interviews, reviews, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, visual art, etc. from Palestinian writers, Jewish writers, writers affected by the occupation, writers affected by state violence in Gaza and elsewhere, and writers affected by imperialism and colonialism. We ask that all work engage with an intersectional feminist lens, directly or indirectly, to uphold our mission.

Submissions open TODAY — Dec. 15, 2023 to Jan 31, 2024.

10/20/2022

Happening tomorrow! Join us and for a Submit-A-Thon where we’ll be submitting to literary journals all day: with free coffee and snacks!! Join us tomorrow in the JC Bistro between 2-5 PM!

10/19/2022

If you missed our fee free day yesterday, you can still get your submission in today for half price! Like our fee free day, this special is one day only, so be sure to submit your poems, fiction, nonfiction, and art by 11:59 PM! 🍁🤠

01/25/2022

We are so excited to launch our new project, the Young Writers Initiative, which invites teen writers & artists to submit work to be featured on our Blog. We launch Feb. 1st; Until then, read what Asst. Fiction Editor Anna Stolley Persky has to say about the project at the link in our bio!

If you would like more information or materials to share with Young Writers in your life, please DM or email us at [email protected]

01/10/2022

Huge Congratulations to our winners and runners-up of the 2022 Contest!! Big thanks again to our judges, Krys Malcolm Belc (), Alysia Sawchyn, Susannah Nevison (), and Ghislaine Fremaux ()

11/03/2021

We are thrilled to announce this year’s Pushcart nominees! Each of these pieces is beyond amazing, and we are so proud to recognize the hard work of these authors ❤️❤️

10/22/2021

Exciting News!! We are hosting our first collaborative reading with the amazing folks at on November 12th beginning at 8PM EST! Join us in person or virtually for some great readers and fun prizes. Register for the event on Eventbrite (link in bio)

09/30/2021

We are beyond excited to announce our Best of the Net nominations! Thank you to all of our nominees and contributors for sharing your words and art with us ❤️

09/12/2021

09/10/2021

Today’s the day!! Submissions for our Annual Contest are ✨OPEN✨ Our editors and judges cannot wait to see your beautiful writing and art.

$500 prize per genre

Submission period: September 10- November 14

$9 Submission fee (free for Black and Indigenous Writers and Artists)

Submit through (link to our website in our bio!)

09/09/2021

Meet Susannah Nevison, our Poetry Judge for this year’s contest—which opens tomorrow!!

What Susannah is looking for: I admire poetry that navigates risk: in voice, in sound, in form. I’m always taken with poems that push the envelope, that challenge my notion of what a poem can do or how a poem works. A poem that shows me something new and surprising, regardless of how it gets there, is a poem I’ll follow almost anywhere.

Learn more about Susannah and the contest at our website (link in bio).

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So to Speak Journal was founded in 1993 by an editorial collective of women MFA candidates at George Mason University. It has served as a space for feminist writing and art for 25+ years. As our journal has evolved over time, so have our views on feminism. We believe in an intersectional feminist outlook which includes, advocates for, and amplifies the perspectives and experiences of marginalized women and nonbinary people.

We are looking for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art from various identities and backgrounds. It is no secret that the literary canon and literary journals are largely comprised of heteronormative, patriarchal, cisgender, able-bodied white men. So to Speak seeks work by writers, poets, and artists who want to challenge and change the identity of the “canonical” writer. Our mission at So to Speak is to provide a digital and print platform to amplify the voices of people of color, people with disabilities, Native and Indigenous peoples, nonbinary people, women, neurodivergent people, people of all different religions or none, migrants, refugees and immigrants (regardless of citizenship), and veterans.

So to Speak Journal publishes two issues a year, one in print and one online. We are a nonprofit journal. Please refer to our website (http://sotospeakjournal.org) for detailed submission guidelines, free online issues, more information about our mission, and monthly blog content (reviews, interviews, series, etc.).