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About GirlChild Press

GirlChild Press publishes work that celebrates the triumph and defiance of girls and women, and provides a quality forum to bring their diverse voices to the foreground.

With the tremendous success of GirlChild's most recent book, Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces, the press is attracting more projects and writers. GirlChild's next anthology, Just Like A Girl: A Manifesta!, is slated for August 2008. A parenting handbook, centered on girls, is also in the works and will be released in September 2009.


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   To learn more about Michelle Sewell and her book, click on the
   "Growing Up Girl" picture above or visit: www.girlchildpress.com





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Lit Reviews
Are you an avid reader who enjoys expressing your thoughts and opinions? Body Republic is a new and upcoming small press committed to providing venues for women to express themselves. We are searching for freelance writers who are able to review books and are able to write honest reviews of 1-5 paragraphs. We encourage new and seasoned writers to contribute. We are interested in spotlighting reviews and authors who are passionate about women and the challenges and joys of being female. We are especially interested in material that provokes thoughts and conversation about the impact cultural and societal standards and experiences, illness, violence, sexuality, and physical limitations have on women’s bodies.  If you are someone with an interest in sharing your thoughts and opinions follow the Book Review Guidelines below.


Lit Review Guidelines

All Book Reviews should include the following:
  • Both electronic and postal mail submissions must include a submission form.
  • Electronic Submissions must be in a .txt or .rtf format.
  • Reviews should be 1-5 paragraphs in length.
  • The authors contact information must appear on each page of the submission.
  • Include a short biographical sketch with each submission.
  • Authors wishing to have their photograph included with their biographical sketch should complete a Photograph Consent form and include it with a photograph and the submission.  ( PDF format here )
  • All submissions must be original and must not have been published previously without prior notice of our editor.
  • Authors may re-use their work for personal use in compilations or websites of their own material. Any further use must be authorized by our editor.
  • Be sure to include a title on your work.
  • Do not send your only or original copy; we cannot be responsible for the loss or non-arrival of submissions.
  • Body Press/Body Republic does not offer compensation for work submitted.
  • Submit only final work, please do not send "works in progress" or proposals for work to be completed.
  • If your submission is accepted and you are under eighteen years of age, you and your Legal Guardian will need to sign a Consent Form that we will email/mail to you.
  • Accepted submissions become the property of Body Republic and will not be returned.
  • Unfortunately, due to the volume of submissions we receive, we cannot field phone calls or emails about individual submissions. All submissions are selected by editorial process. Please allow 6-8 weeks for a response.
  • Submissions will not be returned. Notification will be by email. If you require notification by post, please include a SASE with sufficient postage. Responses will consist of a standard letter with one of two options marked, as follows:
  • Thank you for your submission your work has been accepted.
  • Thank you for your submission unfortunately the work you submitted is not what we are presently looking for.
  • Body Press is not a manuscript assessment agency, therefore detailed feedback or editorial advice for manuscript submissions is not provided.


In addition, contributors to these submissions may remain anonymous if they do not wish to reveal their identities. Our editor will need to know who you are in order to get documents signed and so forth. The information requested on our Submission Form is still required however the contributor may remain unnamed in print if they wish. Certainly, others may want to use their real names.










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