Shameless magazine for teen girls to launch essay anthology

Shameless, the magazine for teen girls, is to publish an anthology of essays and creative non-fiction in cooperation with Tightrope Books in Spring 2009. Co-editors Megan Griffith-Greene and Stacey May Fowles are seeking submissions on a wide range of topics.

The anthology will include creative non-fiction essays by women and
trans-identified adults about their experiences as teens, and is primarily intended for a youth audience. Specifically, we’re looking for submissions about how teen experiences (positive and negative) shaped our writers’ lives.

This project is affiliated with Shameless magazine and is based in the magazine’s attitude and signature mix of smart, sassy, honest and inclusive writing. In keeping with the mandate of Shameless, we want to reach out to young female readers who are often ignored by mainstream media: freethinkers, queer youth, young women of colour, punk rockers, feminists, intellectuals, artists, and activists. We hope this book will open up a real dialogue about growing up female, creating a book that is pro-choice, queer-positive, sex-positive, girl-positive.

Submissions should range from 500 to 2500 words and need to be submitted by mail no later than April 18, 2008: Shameless Magazine Anthology, P.O. Box 68548, 360A Bloor St. W, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1X1. Put "anthology" on the outside of the envelope.

Griffith-Greene is the editor of Shameless magazine and a contributing editor of Chatelaine. Stacey May Fowles blogs daily for and is the publisher of Shameless.