Want to write for girlblog?

Punk singer Poly Styrene is singing into a microphone, wearing a blue twin set, with a pink jumper underneath and a red bandana in her brown, curly hair.

girlblog! is looking for submissions for guest articles on different aspects of alternative culture.

You can also submit original poetry, flash fiction, and personal essays.

This website has a DIY riot grrrl ethic, taking inspiration from the punk and queer feminist zines.

Preferably, submissions would be on the following topics:

  • film & tv

  • music

  • literature

  • lifestyle

and should provide an intersectional perspective.

Please try to keep pitches within 300 words. Articles should be between 1000-2500 words long.

Poetry should stay within 40 lines, not including titles, dedications, or stanza breaks.

Flash fiction should be within 2500 words, and should be within the horror, thriller, social realist, or similar genres.

Any personal essays must be told from an alternative and intersectional perspective, and be within 2500 words.

No content written using AI will be accepted.

If you want to know more or have a pitch in mind that you think would work well on girlblog!, drop me an email.

Cherie Curie fronts The Runaways in the 1970s, wearing a white boilersuit with silver platform knee-highs and long gloves. She stands bow-legged, singing into a microphone with a wide mouth.
A black and white photograph of Kathleen Hanna at a small Bikini Kill gig in the 90s, wearing a floral top and dark leggings and shoes. She leans over as she sings into the microphone. There are people watching behind her, and one of her bandmates.

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