Xicana Anthology Open Call

​CALLING ALL XICANAS!

Do you identify as a Xicana/Chicana?

If so, we invite you to send us your writings! Help us illuminate both the enduring and the new Xicana identity, presence and culture in our new multi-genre and multi-generational creative writing anthology. 
 
Join us in revealing and exploring how Xicana identity impacts lifestyle, values, principles, political stances, education, anti-colonialism resistance, brown female empowerment, spirituality, relationships to ancestral knowledge, motherhood, future generations, indigenous activism, La Lucha movement, art, etc. through your writings. 
 
From Cholas to Madrinas, first generation immigrants to barrio natives, “no sabo kids” to Spanglish speakers, copal-burning-temachtianis to brown-beret-wearers, etc. we invite you to draw from your essence, pour it into a poem, a short story, a personal vignette, etc., and send it to us! 
 
* All submitted pieces will be carefully considered for publication. Both emerging and established writers of all ages welcome. We are looking for writers eager and passionate about continuing the complex and evolving, resilient Xicana narrative.*
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Submission Guidelines: 

1. We accept poems (up to five). 
2. For prose submissions, please limit them to 20 pages.
3. You are welcome to submit in both genres, as long as you limit the poem submission to five. 
4. Please submit your work in standard format: Times New Roman, 12 point font, double spaced, in one attached Word document. (No PDF files. Documents not submitted in Word will not be read.)
5. Submissions must not have been previously published in print or online magazines (your blog or social media is fine). 
6. ​No simultaneous submissions, please. 
   
7. Submissions may be in English or Spanglish
8. Include a short bio (no more than 125 words) written in the third person voice, and an author's photo. 
9. Include a separate paragraph on why/how you identify as Xicana/ Chicana.
10. Please e-mail your work to somosenescrito@gmail.com, and write on subject line: "Somos Xicanas", attention "Luz". 

                                                  There is no submissions fee.
                          Thank you! We look forward to reading your submissions!  ​

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 1, 2023