Body Press Submission Guidelines Welcome to our website content submission page. At Body Press we are always excited to meet new female authors and hear about what's going on around the globe. Please review the submission criteria below before forwarding your work. Electronic Submissions must be in a .doc or .rtf format. The authors/artists contact information must appear on each page of the submission. Include a short biographical sketch with each submission. All submissions must be original and must not have been published previously without prior notice of our editor. Authors may re-use their work for personal use in compilations or websites of their own material. Any further use must be authorized by our editor. Be sure to include a title on your work. Do not send your only or original copy or artwork; we cannot be responsible for the loss or non-arrival of submissions. Body Press/Body Republic does not offer compensation for work submitted. Submit only final work, please do not send "works in progress" or proposals for work to be completed. If your submission is accepted and you are under eighteen years of age, you and your Legal Guardian will need to sign a Consent Form that we will email/mail to you. Accepted submissions become the property of Body Republic and will not be returned. Unfortunately, due to the volume of submissions we receive, we cannot field phone calls or emails about individual submissions. All submissions are selected by editorial process. Please allow 6-8 weeks for a response. Submissions will not be returned. Notification will be by email. If you require notification by post, please include a SASE with sufficient postage. Responses will consist of a standard letter with one of two options marked, as follows: __ Thank you for your submission your work has been accepted. __ Thank you for your submission unfortunately the work you submitted is not what we are presently looking for. Body Press is not a manuscript assessment agency, therefore detailed feedback or editorial advice for manuscript submissions is not provided What We Value Work with a daring style and the courage to voice truthfully the impact society, culture, and history has on women’s bodies. Work contributing to the maintenance and improvement of professional and body positive practice.  Work promoting the interests of women while providing for the building of community, sharing of ideas, information and experiences. Work with an emphasis on lively, empowering, original, radical and culturally diverse fiction and non-fiction. Work by underrepresented authors (women, women of color, women with disabilities, women from the lesbian community), and experimental authors and artists. Innovative work effectively challenging cultural and societal limits and stereotypes.  Our editors value specificity, detail, "showing, not telling", honesty, epiphanies, polished, yet real and un-polished writing reflecting insight. Body Press is highly invested in publishing the emerging voices of first time female authors and groundbreaking books. Submissions that do not meet the Basic Guidelines will not be considered for acceptance. Mail submissions to: Body Press, PO Box 17471, Salem, Oregon 97305

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