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There are currently eight ways to submit your life writing to Mslexia, including how you’re writing despite a personal challenge, what you’re blogging about, and Mslexia Moths anecdotes for performance.
Salon Showcase (Salon Subscribers only)
A new quarterly feature on the Mslexia blog exclusively for Salon members. Please send a nonfiction piece (can be memoir, biography, travel-writing, journalism) up to 1,000 words inspired by an alphabet prompt. Theme: F
Deadline: 5 January 2026
Elevenses Newsletter
Mouthpiece
If you have some hard-won wisdom to impart, something transformative to share, or something annoying you need to get off your chest, turn it into a 300-400 word rant or rave for consideration for our new Mouthpiece slot in our montly Elevenses newsletter.
Deadline: rolling
Mslexia Issue 109
Substacking
What do you write about and why? Please send a 200-word description of your personal Substack and a 200-word excerpt from a recent instalment – plus a link, of course.
My Writing Time
Most writers’ lives are a mosaic of paid and unpaid work, including day jobs, caring duties, teaching, performance and journalism, as well as creative writing. How does writing fit into your life in a typical day? Pitch us by listing your main creative genres plus at least two other aspects of your paid or unpaid working life (e.g. dental nurse, MA student, caring for mother with dementia, project managing my loft extension, member of theatre collective). We'll get in touch if we want to commission you.
#amwriting
We want to hear from writers who manage to continue with their creative work despite a particular challenge, e.g. new baby, long-term illness, English as a second language, depression, no Wi-Fi connection, family ridicule... Pitch us by stating your main creative genre, plus a key ongoing challenge you grapple with in order to continue writing – no more than 200 words in all. We will get in touch if we want to commission a full article.
First Page Surgery
Submit the first 300 words of your (as yet) unpublished fiction or nonfiction manuscript, plus its title, for feedback by a leading editorial consultant.
Deadline for inclusion in Issue 109 of Mslexia: 5 January 2026
Unsure about eligibility, formatting, or what happens to your work after you submit? Visit our Submissions Policy page.
How to Submit
Submitting online
To submit, complete the form below this section and upload your submission document.
Submitting by post
Alternatively, send your entry by post to:
Mslexia
PO Box 656
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE99 1PZ
Please include your address, phone number and email on a separate cover sheet, along with the title of the work you are submitting. All submissions are judged anonymously, so please ensure your name does not appear on the submitted work itself.
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