Calling writers, artists, photographers to share their written stories and visual images for the She Said: Women’s Voices in Utah Anthology. She Said is a collaboration between the Community Writing Center and Amplify Utah. This collaboration seeks to gather stories (poetry, essays, dramas, fiction, hybrid and experimental forms) and visual representations of women’s experiences in Utah, a state that has consistently been ranked the worst state for women’s equality in the areas of workplace environment, education, health and political empowerment. The collaboration also includes a workshop series. We’re looking for submissions that explore what it means to live in these cultural, historical, economic, and political contexts. Writers, Artists, and Photographers of all experience levels are invited to submit. We may ask for revisions and edits where relevant.
We reserve the right not to publish submissions that fall outside of the scope and intentions for this anthology project.
DEADLINE: 11:59 pm on May 5, 2024.
We invite you to share your stories/artwork/photography at the "She Said Anthology Celebration." See below for more details on the Celebration:
Date & Time: June 28th, 2024, from 5-6:30 pm (5-5:25 at the CWC for refreshments and print copies) and then 5:30-6:30 p.m. at Utah Arts Festival Word Fest Stage for reading/presenting works from the anthology.
Those who read/present their anthology work on the Word Fest Stage will receive a day pass for the Utah Arts Festival on June 28th.
Location: 210 E 400 S #8, SLC, UT 84111
This event is free, but an RSVP is required. Please RSVP by clicking HERE.
The SLCC Community Writing Center is part of the Great Salt Lake Collaborative (GSLC), a Solutions Journalism collaborative of well more than a dozen Utah organizations working together to share stories about Great Salt Lake and ways to protect our city’s dying namesake. For 2024, we are proud to announce a call for submissions for the "Lake as Legacy/Lake as Future" Community Anthology 2024.
We're especially interested in speculative fiction--written, visual, multimedia, performance--that responds to the themes of "lake as legacy" and/or "lake as future."
What is speculative fiction? There are debates about what this super genre encompasses. For the purposes of the 2024 Great Salt Lake Community Anthology, "speculative fiction" is an umbrella genre in which writers/creators speculate on big the "what if?" question about the past, present, and future. Speculative fiction includes science fiction, climate fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural, apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic, dystopian, utopian, and other forms of storytelling centered on that "what if?" question in ways that blend and blur reality with the not-yet-possible or with the entirely fantastical.
We will consider submissions outside of speculative fiction as long as they directly and meaningfully respond to the "lake as legacy" and "lake as future" themes.
Text-based submissions over 3,000 words that are accepted will be excerpted for the print edition. The entirety of the work will be published online.
This call is open to any writer, photographer, performing artist, and visual artist ages 15 and older.
NOTE: editors and designers will make small edits for clarity and design consistency.
Submission must be submitted via Submittable no later than 11:59 p.m. on May 31, 2024.
A "Lake as Legacy/Lake as Future" Reading Gala will be held in the late summer/early fall. Contributors to the anthology will be given a print edition of the anthology and an opportunity to read from their work at the gala. More details will be shared in June.