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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
The Matriarchal Missive: Women's Insight & Hindsight
from the Silver & Gold Years of Life


Invitation for older women to submit a 1,000-3,000-word composition to the compendium The Matriarchal Missive: Women’s Insight & Hindsight from the Silver & Gold Years of Life to be edited by Duann Kier.  
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Author Requirements: Women ages 55 and older
​Deadline: December 31, 2022

Estimated Publication Date: Mid-2023
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Basis of Book
  • To weave together threads of wisdom from older women based upon their life experiences, insight and hindsight
  • To give a voice to women who are at risk of passing over to the other side without having been fully heard on this side
  • To save information, knowledge and wisdom gained from the earlier waves of feminism before they are lost to time
  • To inspire all women, especially younger ones, to develop their highest potential and to claim and proclaim their place in the world
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Concepts to Consider in Your Composition Could Include:
  • Blessings of being a woman your age
  • How growing older has affected your experience and understanding of life
  • What you have learned about the cycles of your body & seasons of life
  • What is important and not important in life
  • What you wish you had known earlier in life
  • What has brought you to tears and what has made you pee in your pants with laughter
  • How your experience of life has been affected by your gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, marital status, or other
  • What it was like to grow up as a girl/woman in your family
  • Positive/negative life lessons you learned from the women in your life  
  • What you wished the women in your life had shared (or not shared) with you
  • What you wished the women in your life had modeled (or not modeled) for you
  • A letter to a younger version (or versions) of yourself or a young woman in your life
  • How you developed your gifts and talents
  • How your religious roots affected your perception of self
  • How the fairy tales of your generation influenced you
  • Your experiences in our societal education systems
  • What you learned about sexual intimacy
  • Why you chose to marry or not to marry
  • Why you chose to have children or not to have children
  • The ways you found to give birth to your own unique creativity
  • Why you chose your particulars jobs, career or life’s work
  • Your employment experiences
  • Your understanding of leadership
  • What have been your main sources/resources for personal inspiration, power and empowerment
  • How you found meaning, magic and mystery in your life
  • The most important turning points or rites of passage in a woman’s life and their potential revelational insights
  • How to celebrate these points and passages with ceremony and ritual
  • What you discovered from your greatest victories and/or your greatest losses
  • The right to feel your feels and experience your full range of emotions
  • Your greatest regrets and how other women can avoid them
  • Your greatest joys and how other women can enjoy their own lives
  • How you personally have been affected by the patriarchal systems in place across our planet
  • Experiences or expressions you need to share before they are lost
  • What you feel led to write about
 
Submission Guidelines
  • Deadline
    • No later than Saturday, December 31, 2022 at 12:00pm        Central Time
    • Authors of accepted compositions will be notified no later than Friday, March 31, 2023 at 5:00pm Central Time
  • Author Requirements
    • Women at least 55 years of age on or before deadline date
  • Word Counts
    • Composition Title: Maximum 15 words
    • Composition Body: Minimum 1000 words; Maximum 3000 words
    • Composition Bio: Maximum 300 words
  • Format
    • Microsoft Word
    • Font Type: Times New Roman
    • Font Size: 12pt
    • No bold-faced type
    • Single-spaced
    • Add one double space at end of composition to add bio written in third person, including author’s age.  For example: 
      • Jane Doe, age 65, is a. . . .
  • Email your composition as an attachment to Duann@DuannKier.com by 12:00pm Central Time on Saturday, December 31, 2022
    • Subject Line
      • Submission to The Matriarchal Missive
    • Body
      • Please accept the attached file as my submission to The Matriarchal Missive.  None of the material in my composition is copyrighted and I understand I will not receive any financial compensation for its possible publication in the book.  I also understand my composition may be edited for clarity.  
      • If my composition is selected for inclusion in The Matriarchal Missive, the name and address you should send my free author copy is:
  • No compositions will be accepted after deadline
  • No corrections will be accommodated after composition is submitted
  • Only one submission per author
  • Submissions not meeting guidelines will be returned to sender and can be resubmitted meeting guidelines
  • Submissions will be judged primarily upon how successfully they address any/all of the four major premises listed under the above section titled “Basis of the Book”
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Addendum
  • If your composition is selected to be included in the book, you will also be offered the opportunity to contribute to a section of the book titled “The Haggarie: Crone Humor for Laughing at Life and Even Oneself.”
  • Word Count: Maximum 300
  • Same format as composition
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Contact Person
  • Duann Kier at Duann@DuannKier.com​

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