CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Redacted: What Divorced Women Aren’t Telling You
Redacted: What Divorced Women Aren’t Telling You is an anonymous publication featuring the uncensored stories of divorced women.
Submission guidelines:
Subject matter: Any topic related to your personal experience with divorce
Submissions close June 30th, 2025
Anonymous personal essays for Substack column: 750-2000 words
Anonymous personal essays for print/digital anthology: 1000-3000 words
300-word micro-essays for Divorce Dispatches
1-sentence submissions for Tiny Truths
WRITERS MAY SUBMIT THE SAME ESSAY FOR CONSIDERATION IN BOTH SUBSTACK AND THE PRINT ANTHOLOGY, and are welcome to submit to more than one category at once.
Tell us about the day you left. Tell us about your mediation over Zoom, what it cost you to move or stay, how it feels to co-parent with your ex-husband, how you threw his toothbrush into the trash. Write about the moment you knew; write about the first anniversary; write about the audacity of his attorney or the passive aggressiveness of his mother. Tell us about his affair, or yours. Write about what it feels like to have "50/50" custody when you are parenting project manager. Tell us the secrets you have been carrying. Pour onto the page your rage, your shame, your grief, your glee, your ambivalence. Your story might be heartbreaking or hilarious or shocking or relatable. You might make us cringe or gasp or weep or burn with rage or nod our heads or write our senators. Write the story that has been weighing on you, and release what you have been holding. Tell us the truth, and know that none of your story will be redacted.
This publication welcomes perspectives from women, non-binary, transgender, and gender-diverse writers, excluding cis-gender men. Redacted will showcase unique voices, writing styles, and points of view—writers of all ethnicities, cultural backgrounds, socioeconomic statuses, and other diverse lived experiences are encouraged to submit.
Learn more about this project here.
Submit here.
