The Call for the Bimbo Anthology II is open!
Turns out we had you at BIMBO.
Calling all bimbos, himbos, and thembos for a special multi-genre anthology, we are requesting your most revealing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid work, and visual art. We love writing that is innovative in form and progressive in content. Send us art that empowers us and makes us giggle. We have a soft spot for work with a pop culture edge that leans hard into culture, whatever that means for you. We encourage queer and BIPOC writers and artists to please submit. We look forward to all the sugar and spice you send our way.
Open until July 11th
Here is what we are looking for…
For the Bimbo anthology, we encourage you to interpret and reclaim “bimbo” in whichever way gives you power. We are particularly excited to see work that explores gender, sexuality, interpersonal relationships, fourth-wave feminism, intersectionality, class, self-image/self-love, and ultra-feminization. Think bubble gum, pink, and flip phones. Nostalgia redone with a gloss of equality. We appreciate anti-violence themes, pop culture subjects, and reclamations of derogatory terms. We recognize that everyone is beautiful and intelligent in their own way, and the best trait one can have is kindness.
If you wrestled with your femininity, someone else’s, don’t have any played dodge ball with the double-edged sword of the male gaze, and society’s expectations, this anthology is a home for you. We are resisting stereotypes stylishly!
Guidelines:
- Submissions must be the author’s original work.
- We are not accepting translations at the moment.
- Please, no lyrics unless it is your original work. We do not publish work with outside lyrics. Why? Because permissions are needed for each lyric, and this expensive! NO LYRICS! NO EXCEPTIONS!!!! (Paraphrase! honeys)
- Poetry submissions may include 3-4 poems per submission. Please submit all your poems in one document.
- Poetry should be single spaced (unless the spacing is poem specific).
- Fiction and nonfiction should be double-spaced, 12 pt in an easy-to-read font like Times, Garamond, Georgia, or Calibri. Specifically, no Helvetica or Courier. They are to read.
- If you work is not properly formatted it will not be read.
- Please title your submission file: Firstname_Lastname_Genre (ex: Jane_Doe_Poetry)
- Visual artists can include up to 3 pieces per submission in jpeg format, under 7MB. If accepted, we will request a hi-res version.
- Works of prose may be up to 5,000 words per submission.
- All work must not have been previously published online or in print to be eligible. This includes being published in blogs or on social media.
- Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Please notify us if any of your poems are accepted for publication elsewhere.
- A bio of 80 words or less must be included with your submission.
- A Word document is the preferred format. PDFs will also be accepted
- Thank you for trusting us with your work. We are excited to read it. Like you, we are writers.
- This is a print anthology that will be published in 2029.
- Contributors receive a contributor copy of the anthology.
