Nonfiction

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: E

Deadline: 6 October 2025

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 108

Timepiece

Send us 300 words of nonfiction about something which happened in a particular year. Year for Issue 108: 1912

Mslexia Moths

A memoir slot, named after the famous Moth memoir performance events in the US and available to sample on the Moth Radio Hour on BBC Radio 4 Extra. These are true anecdotes written in prose, in first person, and suitable for reading on the page or in performance. Your text must be between 700 and 800 words (the length of an 8-minute performance).

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

How does writing fit into your life in a typical day? Pitch us by listing your main creative genre plus two other aspects of your working life. 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Submit the first 300 words of your (as yet) unpublished fiction or nonfiction manuscript for feedback by a leading literary agent.

Deadline for inclusion in Issue 108 of Mslexia: 6 October 2025

Unsure about eligibility, formatting, or what happens to your work after you submit? Visit our Submissions Policy page.

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Submitting online

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Submitting by post

Alternatively, send your entry by post to:

Mslexia
PO Box 656
Newcastle upon Tyne
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