SUBMIT
Our second CFP will open in Fall 2025
General Submission Rules
Please send all submissions (creative and scholarly works and community stories) to journalplanb@gmail[DOT]com. In submitting to Plan B, authors confirm that their work has not been previously published. If a submission is under review elsewhere, authors must disclose this at the time of submission and notify the editors immediately if it is accepted by another publisher so that the piece can be formally withdrawn. If a work is multi-authored, all writers must agree to the submission and should be cc'd on the original email submission. After publication, all rights revert to the writer, but we ask that authors include the appropriate acknowledgements in subsequent publications. Upon submitting, authors agree that their work does not contain any material that violates the intellectual property rights of third parties. Authors may publish their work under their real name, a pen name, or anonymously.
We invite submissions from emerging and established scholarly and creative writers and from the badass activists doing important organizing work in their communities.
If you have any questions about these submission rules, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at journalplanb@gmail[DOT]com.
Articles
Articles in alphabetic text should be submitted as Word documents or as Google Docs. We ask that authors remove all identifiable information from their submissions unless doing so would hinder the meaning of the work. Articles should be between 4,500 to 7,500 words.
Creative Works
For creative submissions, we invite poetry, essays, flash fiction/nonfiction, and short stories. Please limit submissions to no more than: five poems, two pieces of flash, one essay, or one short story.
Community Blog
If you wish to submit something to our editor-reviewed community blog to highlight your organizing and activist work, please focus on describing a specific reproductive justice event you were involved in, your advocacy efforts on a specific bill, how your organization is supporting RJ in your community, etc. Please limit community blog submissions to 1,000 words. If you have any questions about what we’re looking for from community blog submissions, we would be happy to answer them and to brainstorm possible topics or approaches with you.