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Medusa Rising publishes women. We publish new work that shares or chimes with a radical materialist feminist framework by women of all backgrounds and from all continents to support women’s becoming and world building movement. We publish at a pace set for full absorption and integration of the offerings you.

Four to eight times a month you will see: writing in all genres, voice-only podcasts, and artwork. Some work will be free to all on our website since we want women everywhere fueled up for the work and for the joy. || Our long-term vision includes strengthening our witness and sisterhood, increasing flows of material support, and imagining new ways feminist organizations can coordinate globally obstruct the misogynist far-right and far-left and build the world women deserve.

We want to pay contributors, but we can't do that without reader support.

The Corra Rate is free when you sign-up and delivers TRN Remixes, the Gorgon Posse podcasts, Resources posts, & Post previews. Tickets for Reading Circle and Live Events for $6.

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The Yacumama Rate of $2 USD helps with overhead and the Corra content, Full posts, & Post Audio. Tickets for Reading Circle and Live Events for $6.
👉Donated subscriptions available for sisters & cousins.

The Pythia Rate of $8 USD invests in the ground-laying for next phases and delivers the Yacumama content, plus Comments, Reading Circle and Live Event invitations, & the Gorgon Posse Podcast & Videos (not usually sync'd).
👉Donated subscriptions available for sisters & cousins.

The Tiamat Rate of $20 USD secures this project's future, delivers all Pythia content and goodies, & Includes the Annual Anthology 📚.

Medusa Rising Anthology
Subscribers at any rate may purchase our annual full color, print anthology of selected writing and art from the year. The Medusa Rising Anthology publishes annually between the October festivals of Diwali and Samhain and the December festivals of Hanukkah and Yule. Expect the first edition in 2026. Pre-sales to begin July 2026.

Submissions Are Open
We are always open for submissions on any subject or topic of feminist interest from reportage and memoire to policy and theory, and combinations thereof. || We do not charge for submissions, but kindly ask that you subscribe, at least for a while.

*Our rates are named after mythic snake-goddesses or snake daughters of Gaia.

We're mostly – but not only – looking for shorter work, as heavy on the moxy/attitude/rizz as on the thought/knowledge/imagination.

Thought, critique, poetry, fiction, reporting, reviews of all cutlural production, speculations, futures, soulcraft, healing, history – about and around all the harms patriarchy does to women and all the feminist resistance women are giving our lives to.

We invite you to share work in any genre. We welcome works that combine or brushes the edges of any of genres and themes. Shout what needs shouting!

We accept pseudonyms to protect women's lives and livelihoods.

We suggest listening to our manifesto to get a sense of the perspective we bring to feminist movement and creativity.

Current Focus

NEW AND BEGINNING WRITERS. NEW AND BEGINNING FEMINISTS.
EXPERTS. ACTIVISTS. JOURNALISTS. ARTISTS. THEORISTS.
2ND WAVE OG RAD FEMS. YOUNG RAD FEMS. FEMINISTS OF THE WORLD.

• Praise for your feminist inspriation! A woman. An event. A creation.
• How did you become a feminist?
• What is the most precious part of your feminism for you?
• What do you want older or younger feminists to know or do?
• How do you do your feminism?
• What do you want feminists of other factions/ethnicities/countries to know or do?
• Pick some part of the Manifesto RadMatFem, imagine what it could look like in action. All speculations welcome!

Don't see your thing? Want to share something else, from another direction, in another mood, about another topic, wider aperture, sharper vector? Cool. Here's an even bigger list of the deep fields we want to dance in!

Audience: Please assume our readers have some background in feminist thought or activism, but are not experts. Imagine your readers will want to put your words into action in some way.

Tone: We prefer a casual, clever, and human voice. That combination of rigor and friendliness is the sweetspot. Jokes, puns, sarcasm, unvarnished truths, rage, and well-polished cursing are all welcome.

Purpose: We really like solutions, proposals, imagination, thriving, plans, luck, theory, successes, models that can be adapted. But, some problems are sticky and wicked and just have to be examined that way.

We accept work by female people in these genres or in combinations of genres:

Visual Artworks, up to 5 pieces in high resolution JPGs

Essay, Memoire, Creative Non-Fiction (<1200 words, ~750 preferred)

Flash fiction, Microfiction, and Poetry

Conversations, Reportage, shorter 'Think Pieces': includes history, reportage, analysis, critique, explorations (~3000 words, will be published in series of ~1000 word posts). If your piece is a conversation, we welcome the participants biographies to be included at the end of the text.

Reviews of all cultural artefacts about or affecting women: film, music, books, podcasts, musicals, music videos, trends on social media, &c. We prefer balanced reviews, but we know that's not always possible. (<1200 words, ~750 preferred)

Policy ideas and proposals, legal history and discussion (<1200 words, ~750 preferred)

Recommendations, super-short positive reviews of culture, books, websites, feminist organizations, up to 100 words – collected and published quarterly.

Long reads and deep dives can range up to 6000 words and will be published as series of 1000-word posts (with links to keep the parts together and in order for readers).

• Non-fiction prose
• • ~ 750 words - $20 max
  • ~ 1200 words - $40 max
  • ~ 3000 words - $100 max
  • ~ 6000 words - $200 max
• Creative work
• • Micro/flash fiction - $15
  • Poetry - $15
  • Creative/experimental essay or memoire, strongly prefered limit 1200 words, maximum 3000 words - $1o0 max
• Visual Artwork - $30 each piece

All rates in US dollars.

Expectations

Your subscriptions of $2 or $8 per month to Medusa Rising enable our support for feminist artists and writers. We give away a lot of content for free to support access for as many women as possible, so you can see that subscriptions are vital way to share this resource in solidarity.

A bit of expectation setting: We publish a maximum of 8 content posts per month. If we are publishing a series, that could run between 2-6 posts. We have a limited capacity for close editing as we are tiny staff. As our capacity increases, our pace of publication can increase as well. But we know there's cartloads of great feminist work going on. We do not want to overwhelm!

A few other feminist venues we admire (and there are many) are The Anti-Misogyny Club, Feminist Dissent, Total Woman Victory, She's Right You Know Substack, Restoration Magazine, Female.Liberation, Womens eNews, Brown Sugar, Women's Liberation Radio News (WLRN), Lilith Magazine, Matriarchy Times, Rewire, The Crunk Feminist Collective, Hawwa, Mistral, ... we could go on. Look in your regions, your languages, the venues and communities are there. We are not the only game in town, and we want your words to get in the world. Not all of these journals align closely with a RadMatFem framework, but connection beats isolation every time!

To you most courageous imagination!!!!