Exhale is a totally volunteer-run publication that strives for a literary audience. We are always looking for new contributors from many different types of background: essays, commentary, personal revelations, art, photography, or another medium that reveals a less-than-obvious aspect of pregnancy/infant loss, childless-not-by-choice, or infertility struggles in a creative and compelling way.
WRITTEN CONTRIBUTIONS: We do accept previously published pieces from a personal blog as well as original, unpublished works. Please submit written pieces to submissions@exhalezine.com . Please include your submission in the text of your email rather than by attachment.
ARTWORK & PHOTOGRAPHY: These should be submitted in jpeg format to submissions@exhalezine.com. Please include a caption/title for all artwork and photography, as well as a brief written background of your work: how does it contribute to the voice of Exhale? What does this visual piece mean to you?
- Eulogies for babies or young children who have passed away. (We have our reasons, trust us.)
- Advice for other readers. (There is already plenty of self-help material out there.)
- Anything that is religiously or politically preachy or anti-abortion, even if it is creative.
- Contributions in a casual girlfriend-to-girlfriend tone.
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If we decide NOT to use your piece:
Please don’t be discouraged about writing about your situation or deterred from submitting to Exhale again in the future. We receive a lot of submissions, which means we have the grim job of turning many of them down. We recognize that the stories you send us come from fragile places inside your heart, and we respect and honor each and every one of the submissions we receive. If we pass on your piece, it is never because your story isn’t worth telling. It is generally because it isn’t what we are looking for at this time.