TUTUM JOURNAL – A MAGAZINE FOR & BY CHILDLESS WOMEN

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Tutum Journal is your guide to navigating life through a collection of narrative essays, interviews, and expert advice that will inspire and nurture your path to healing.

Tutum Journal is a quarterly digital magazine by and for childless women. Useful as a resource to live through and beyond involuntary childlessness. 

Tutum Journal is a digital magazine published every quarter. Our first issue was published on March 18, 2021, and we accept submissions year-round.

We have a penchant for heartfelt words, and deep-soul care. We believe that stories exist in a specific moment, and that that moment is what makes those stories unique.

What we’re really looking for are stories that can touch the heart. Stories that come from the heart. Stories about identity, relationships, the self, the world, the childless experience. Stories that show what living in this world as a childless/childfree woman is like.

There’s so much noise out there, bombarding us constantly with an endless stream of information and it becomes harder and harder to hear ourselves think. This is a quiet place for you to sit, read, remember, and reflect.

We believe that words shape us as individuals. Words stay with us as we go through life, and the words we kept sacred yesterday may be different than the words we need today. Whatever you may be experiencing right at this time in your life, there are the right words for it. The right words comfort us in need. They breathe life into our beings. They show us how we feel. And we are here to give them to you.

Submissions are officially open for Tutum Journal’s Issue 5! The theme is PSYCHE.

ATTN: Diverse childless female voices and subject matter experts!

We want to hear from women who are childless/childfree not by choice or by circumstance across continents to delve into human emotions and mental well-being. In this issue, we're exploring mental health  —  and mental illness   —  with an eye to the impact on involuntary childless women, how we heal and ways to optimize mental well-being.

Submit your personal stories, poetry, short fiction, and expert advice. 𝙴𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚕 𝚞𝚜 your submission by December 19, 2021. 

Please attach your submissions in a Word document (no PDFs unless your poetry has very specific formatting.

If your submission is selected, you will hear back from us no later than January 3.

We will be eagerly awaiting your submission.

OPEN Submissions accepted year-round!