Call for Submissions
Introducing OSC No. 1: The Self-Expression Issue
(Deadline for pitches: rolling)
The editorial scope of Our Self Care (OSC) magazine has no limits as long as it relates to lived experiences of femme present persons and their mental health challenges and/or wellness. This is mean works related to human rights, travel, events, exhibitions, concerts, shows, health, sport, recreation, nutrition, careers, education, personal finance, transportation, housing, social policy, relationships, technology, family life, movie/book reviews and personality profiles, and festivals will be equally considered. We publish and are constantly looking for fiction, poetry, cartoons, animations, graphic art, drama, personal essays, op-eds, photo essays, reported features, interviews, artwork, comic scripts, and other creative story formats from contributors around the world.
The Self-Expression Issue: Now accepting queries!
Everyone’s has different ways of expressing themselves, especially when their mind likes to carve its own path. From poetry to sketching to drumming, from pop culture to politics, women have used art and self-expression as a successful coping skill for living with mental health challenges (and getting their hustle on). What’s your way of self-expression—and how does it affect your wellbeing—are you mindful of the experience? What are the roots of expression? We’re especially curious about the relationship between self-expression and our inner worlds. So, for the first issue of OSC, we’re looking at how self-expression relates to mental health. Self-expression has many faces, and we’re interested in all of them. Regardless of medium or form, it influences the way we reveal ourselves to the people around us. What stories can you tell about the way it affects your mental health or the health of your community? What aspects of self-expression haven’t been discussed? There are people who see self-expression as a malleable and evolving sense of self; and others that see it as the secret entrance to our hidden worlds. There are those who play with what self-expression means, and others who see it as a cage. For OSC No. 1 we’re interested in how self-expression—whether consciously or subconsciously—appears in our everyday lives and impacts our wellness journeys.
Rate of Payment
We prefer not to receive simultaneous submissions. Please note that we only publish original content. We will not republish a piece from any other publication, blog or other websites. Work that has been previously exhibited in-person (but not online) will be excepted on a case by case bases. OSC purchases first-time serial rights and 6 months exclusive electronic license for all material used (which become non-exclusive electronic rights 6 months after publication). This includes the right to publish all material printed in OSC in our alternate formats as well on the Internet (i.e. print edition).
Our rates are competitive with other magazines.
RIGHTS
Our Self Care buys First North American Serial Rights, First Digital Publication Rights, and Non-Exclusive Archival Rights only. This means that work submitted to OSC should not appear in any print or digital publication before the release of the issue in which the work appears. After publication, all other rights revert to the author/artist, although if the piece is reprinted, please be sure to acknowledge Our Self Care Magazine as its first publisher.