Make/shift
Make/shift—a magazine creating, documenting, and engaging with contemporary feminist culture and activism—is seeking submissions for its fifth issue (spring/summer 2009).
Issue 4, due out in September, will feature “Without You Who Understand: Letters Between Radical Women of Color” (a special section guest-edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs); a multi-article spread on feminist/cooperative economics; an excerpt from Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s forthcoming novel, So Many Ways to Sleep Badly; notes on solidarity among queers and feminists in the U.S. and Nicaragua; report-backs from the WOC Lockdown at the University of Michigan and the gender-justice convening in Oakland; and moving personal and photo essays about young women and sexuality. As always, there will be new columns by Randa Jarrar, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Nomy Lamm, and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore; extensive book, film, and event reviews; and much, much more.
For Issue 5, we are seeking
–investigative journalism
–photojournalism
–critical essays
–personal essays
–profiles of feminist activists, artists, projects, and thinkers
–fiction and poetry
–art and photography
–book, maga/zine, film, art, and event reviews
–hybrid pieces
We are also seeking content for the following regular make/shift features:
–Everyday Actions: scenes of feminist action in everyday life (200 to 400 words; theme TBA)
–Documents: documents of feminist discourse in progress (doodle-covered meeting minutes, e-mail exchanges, and the like)
–Make/Plans: listings for our international calendar of upcoming events (submit info for events occurring between March and September 2009)
–Participate: listings for our community bulletin board (calls for submissions, invitations to participate in community projects, and the like)
Make/shift pays $.02/word plus two copies.
Send pitches or full-draft submissions to info@makeshiftmag.com. Please submit no more than three poems or two pieces of prose at a time. Feel free to pitch multiple ideas at once. We accept pitches and submissions on a rolling basis, but priority for Issue 5 will be given to those received by September 1.
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