Call for Writers

We need your voice!

Hey, y’all. We lookin for more people from what we call the “priority community,” or the people most impacted by HIV/AIDS, the illness we are trying to prevent and slay stigma around.

We want to hear from:

  1. Queer Black folks
  2. Queer people of color
  3. Women (cis and trans)
  4. People with disabilities

Our blog focuses on sexual health with an emphasis on PrEP, and we are looking to expand. Topics include your PrEP journey, creative non-fiction about sexual health, doctor’s visits, learning about PrEP, talking to friends about sexual health, sexual stigma, or general themes around healthy sexuality. Think blog posts, essays, photo essays, story times, and alladat.

We’re expaaaaandiiiiing.

Whatever your style is, formal speech or the king’s English, however you create is accepted here. We want the most creative, you-est you here. Ain’t no slang shamin up in here, girl, ain’t nobody got time for AWL OF THAT!

 

 

INSTRUCTIONS:
Please complete the form below to be considered for submissions and feel free to share with your artsy friends (“oo wee oo wee oo” – Erykah Badu).

  • Writers who are accepted will be notified within 30 days of submission.
  • Multiple submissions are allowed and encouraged.
  • Each accepted submission pays $100. Submitters will have to turn in a W9 for payment.
  • Pieces should be a minimum of 500 words, but no more than 1500 (if you are a wordy b*txh like me, I get it).

Each piece will be received by me! AKeem, resident writer and PrEP Navigation Specialist at MetroHealth System and reviewed by our Pop2Block team.






    For security reasons, Word files are not permitted. Accepted file types: jpeg, jpg, txt, rtf, pdf.
    Files must be smaller than 10MBs