Total Woman Victory is a collection of art and writing submitted by feminists from all over the world. This publication is made possible because women have generously given their time, creativity, and ideas for free. Each issue is a testament to the power of community-driven content and the contributions of women who believe in sharing their voices. We invite others to participate as well, as submissions for art and writing will be open for every issue. To stay updated, announcements for when submissions are open will be made on our Twitter and Substack, and submission forms will be posted here on our website!
Submissions are currently closed. Check back in July!
Submit your application for TWV’s art team HERE or by clicking the image above.
Contributor Expectations
At Total Woman Victory, the submission and writing process is designed to bring out the strongest possible version of each contributor’s work while upholding the newsletter’s radical feminist and anti-imperialist commitment. Contributors should expect their work to undergo a rigorous but supportive editorial process that sharpens their arguments, strengthens thematic grounding, and polishes language for clarity and precision. The goal is not simply to correct mistakes, but to elevate each piece so that it is politically powerful, intellectually mature, and directly engaged with the issue’s theme.
ESSAYS
Every essay moves through two distinct rounds of editing before publication. The first round focuses on political clarity, structure, and thematic cohesion. In this stage, editors look closely at whether the essay articulates a sharp radical feminist and anti-imperialist analysis, whether it clearly identifies material conditions rather than falling into abstract or moralistic framing, and whether it demonstrates a coherent political throughline. Contributors should expect feedback in the form of detailed comments and suggested edits, often pushing for deeper connections to history, sharper analysis of oppression, and greater structural cohesion in the argument. The result of this first round is a clarified and ideologically sharpened draft that is ready for revision.
The second round is dedicated to finalization and precision editing. Here, editors confirm that all earlier comments have been addressed and that the essay now fully meets the publication’s standards. This stage emphasizes sentence-level clarity, logical flow, political accuracy, and the removal of any remaining redundancies or awkward phrasing. By the end of this round, the piece must be completely finalized—publication-ready with no further changes required. Any edits beyond this point will be limited to minor grammatical or typographical corrections during issue formatting.
Contributors should also be mindful of Total Woman Victory’s house style and technical expectations. Essays should be around 3,000 words, must use APA citations, and should avoid excessive digression or jargon. The tone should be bold, analytical, and accessible while remaining firmly rooted in the collective’s radical feminist editorial voice. Sources must be properly referenced in-text and compiled in a post-essay “REFERENCES” list.
If you’d like to reference our Proofreading Guidelines to ensure that your written work is up to standard, you can download and read the pdf here!
Ultimately, the submission and writing process is a collaborative effort. Editors are committed to strengthening contributors’ work through incisive feedback and careful attention, while contributors are expected to take revisions seriously and push their arguments to their full potential. This process ensures that every essay in Total Woman Victory not only represents the voice of its author, but also upholds the clarity, rigor, and revolutionary purpose of the publication as a whole.
VISUAL ART AND CREATIVE WRITING
Just like essays, art and creative writing in Total Woman Victory must also develop political awareness through their form, imagery, and narrative. These works are held to the same political standards as essays, as creative work is just another method of engaging with and expressing the material realities of women’s lives. Contributors should ensure that their work is still grounded in radical feminist and anti-imperialist commitments, even when working with abstraction, fiction, symbolism, and experimental methods. Work that is purely aesthetic, detached from political reality, or does not engage meaningfully with the issue’s theme will not meet the publication’s standards. Creative work in Total Woman Victory should make women think deeper about our oppression, confront uncomfortable truths, feel understood and seen, imagine new and better realities, or understand radical ideas more fully when introduced to them in different forms!
All creative work moves through two distinct rounds of editing before publication. The first round focuses on conceptual clarity, thematic cohesion, and political grounding. Editors will assess how effectively the piece engages with the issue’s theme and whether its imagery or narrative conveys a clear and intentional meaning. Contributors can expect feedback that lets them know how editors felt and what they thought about when looking at their art or reading their writing, what they think the piece is portraying well, and what needs to be pushed further or clarified. This stage is intended to ensure that the work is artistically coherent and politically purposeful, while not interfering excessively with the contributor’s personal style and intentions. All contributors are encouraged to discuss with editors about recommendations we make and even let us know when they feel it is in the work’s best interest to decline suggestions. As artists ourselves, we will try our best to push your work to its full potential, yet also understand when edits encroach too far upon personal visions. The result of this first round is a clarified and ideologically sharpened draft that is ready for revision. (In the case of submissions of finished artworks, we do not expect contributors to change anything—each contributor will speak with us individually for further personal instruction!)
The second round is dedicated to finalization and precision editing. Here, editors confirm that all earlier comments have been addressed and that the work now fully meets the publication’s standards. For creative writing and poetry, this stage emphasizes tightening language, logical flow, political accuracy, and the removal of any remaining redundancies or awkward phrasing. By the end of this round, the piece must be completely finalized—publication-ready with no further changes required. Any edits beyond this point will be limited to minor grammatical or typographical corrections during issue formatting. Visual artists may have final touches to add to pieces or small adjustments to composition, but these should be very minimal, and the work should be mostly finalized. We will speak with visual artists, poets, and creative writers to plan formatting for the newsletter and Substack—do you want your image to take up a full page? Should your poetry be spaced or aligned differently? Would you like different formatting for print versus digital publication? (Especially in the case of any art with moving parts!)
Contributors should be mindful of medium-specific expectations: poetry does not have a strict word count, while creative writing should remain around 3,000 words. Visual art must be submitted in high-resolution formats suitable for both digital and printed publication, and contributors should be prepared for their work to be integrated into the overall design of the issue.
TIMELINE
The Total Woman Victory submission process follows a structured timeline that balances time for writing, editing, and issue preparation. After the editorial team posts the proposal form, contributors have two weeks to submit their ideas. Within five days, proposals are reviewed and writers are notified if their submission has been selected for the issue. Contributors are then given three weeks to complete their first draft. The editorial team reviews this draft and returns it with comments and suggested edits within one week. Writers then have about one and a half weeks to revise and resubmit a second draft. A second round of proofreading is completed within five days, ensuring the essay is sharpened and refined. The final draft is due shortly after, and at this stage, the piece must be fully polished and ready for publication.
Following the final submission, the editorial team spends about two weeks preparing the issue for release—finalizing design, producing artwork to accompany the pieces, updating the website, and carrying out outreach and promotion. This timeline is designed to create a steady rhythm between writing and editing. Contributors are expected to stay on schedule, as delays affect not only their own piece but also the overall production of the issue. By moving together through this process, we ensure that every essay in Total Woman Victory reaches its fullest political and stylistic strength while the issue as a whole comes together on time.
Privacy Pledge
Total Woman Victory was founded in the anonymous niches of the internet, not because the women behind this project had doubts regarding their political allegiances, but because their own feminist consciousness was shaped in no small part by the antagonism women have historically faced when navigating discursive territory, from both right and left.
It was after the explosion of genocidal Zionist apologia, post-October 2023, in many of these aforementioned spaces that the Marxist and anti-imperialist enclaves of online feminists rapidly settled into agreement that the onus of carving out a space for ourselves fell squarely on our own shoulders—but we remained convinced that there was a courage, honesty, and candidness which only anonymity could sometimes provide.
At this publication, we hope to contend with conversations unapologetically. We rebuke the purposefully defanged attitudes of liberal feminism which run cover for patriarchal and capitalist violence. Our contributors are encouraged to—and do, from all over the world—take on such goliaths as gender, religious extremism, imperialist hegemony and myopia, intracommunal chauvinism, and so on and so forth.
There is a throughline of loss running through the history of combative feminist politics. At the pyre of liberation, women have lost, and continue to lose—their families, their children, their education, their livelihoods, and indeed, their lives.
While we believe that courage anywhere calls to courage everywhere, our priority will always be the safety of the extraordinary women who choose to put their pens to paper and have chosen to bestow us with the honor and responsibility of broadcasting their voices.
Should you choose to maintain it, our editorial team pledges to uphold your anonymity at all costs.
