HEY, WE’RE

SO TO SPEAK

an intersectional feminist

literary journal established in 1992

Cover Art: “Shí dóó shítsilí” by Danielle Emerson

Exquisite Armanté

Debmalya Bandyopadhyay

Sebastian Bronson Boddie

Danielle Emerson

Katie Field

Sarah Giragosian

featuring

Kale Hensley

Victoria Hood

Zoé Mahfouz

Irina Tall Novikova

Dani Putney

Tracy Sidesinger

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  • Short stories, flash fiction & micros.

    Double-spaced with numbered pages, please. 5,000 words or less.

    For flash or micros, please send up to 3 in a single submission packet.

  • 5 poems max, 10 pages total.

  • Personal essay, memoir, profiles, & undefinable experiments.

    Double-spaced with numbered pages, please. 5,000 words or less.

    For flash or micros, please send up to 3 in a single submission packet.

  • Anything you can imagine that engages with intersectional feminism, implicitly or explicitly. Please limit to 5 pieces per submission packet.

    PNG formats at 300 dpi, please.

  • Open to multiple forms of storytelling, but we prefer blends, hybrids, interviews, reviews, and work that pushes the boundaries of genre.

    2,000 words or less; 3 poems max. Double-spaced with numbered pages, please.

list of past

contributors

Kristin Aardsma, Andrea Acker, Christina Adam, Diana Adams, Chelsea Adams, Rebecca Adams, Kim Addonizio, Lindsay Adkins, Paul David Adkins, Beenish Akhtar, Linaa Alataar, Jessica Alazraki, Marcia Aldrich, Nolde Alexius, Kim van Alkemade, Cynthia Allen, Ashleigh Allen, Laura Allen, Sophia Allison, Sue Allison, Margaret Almon, Hana Altaratz, Tamar Altebarmakian, Jeanne Althouse, Cecelia Concepcion Alvarez…

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View fullsize Like a gravitron, Erika Walsh’s “Secret Princess” will pin you to the wall with the sheer force of her language. “Secret Princess” is like the first few clean pulls of a mid-noon 7/11 slushie. “Secret Princess&rdqu
View fullsize ON THE BLOG: Smothermoss ⛰️🐇🌿 Alisa Alering (@alisa.alering) talks queer girlhood, nature magic, and the speculative as a catalyst for intersectionality. Their words writhe on the page, and we’re simply obsessed. Read their wisdom here: htt
View fullsize MOVE THAT CNF/FICTION/POETRY/VISUAL ART OUT OF YOUR DRAFTS AND INTO OUR SUBMITTABLE !!!!!! BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE !!!!!!! Link here: https://www.sotospeakjournal.org/submissions
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View fullsize Kale Hensley’s “A Bed Built On Wheels” is a stranger who asks for your birthday in the bar bathroom, holds your hands, and tells you seeing an aquarius is a conditionally great idea. Kale Hensley’s “A Bed Built On Wheels
View fullsize From our summer digital issue, Cat Casey’s WORM CHURCH begs you read & re-read & re-re-read until you, too, are wriggling in the dirt with praise&worship. From Cat: “This flash piece was actually inspired by a tweet. It was m
View fullsize ⁉️ WHAT'S THAT ANNOUNCEMENT ⁉️ for the rest of our open submission period (until nov. 15), So to Speak is upping our word caps for prose submissions!!! we'll now consider pieces up to 5k in length 🌿 these new guidelines are reflected on our website
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View fullsize GMU students, mark your calendars for Submit-A-Thon 2024! 🌸☠️ 2 days of spooky sessions to polish your pieces and submit to literary journals
View fullsize impatiently waiting to discover your work 🍏🌺📝
View fullsize This 21st night of September, you better remember to SUBMIT those pieces lurking in your drafts!🗣️🗣️
View fullsize secrets out!! it was our honor to publish these pieces & even more so to nominate them for Best of Net 2025 ❤️‍🔥 we’re rooting for y’all to make the anthology!
View fullsize 9.1 -> 11.15 subs are OPEN for our 2025 print issue! Send your hottest gayest brattiest pieces… and hellooo visual art subs are free 🧚‍♀️☂️🍀
View fullsize HAPPENING THIS FRIDAY 🍉NO PRIDE WITHOUT PALESTINE: A Virtual Reading will be held on JUNE 14, 2024 from 6:30PM - 8:00PM EST over Zoom webinar 🍉this event is an act of solidarity and activism; together, as journals and writers, we speak out agains
View fullsize the first of our new digital issue features is Hazelle Lerum — this is an excerpt from her poem HEALTHCARE FROM THE DITCH, which you can read on our site now (along with 30 QUESTIONS… which will get its own dedicated post 🤫) 💌 link: h
View fullsize 🕊️ NO PRIDE WITHOUT PALESTINE: A Virtual Reading will be held on JUNE 14, 2024 from 6:30PM - 8:00PM EST over Zoom webinar 🕊️this event is an act of solidarity and activism; together, as journals and writers, we speak out against the rampant rainbo