HerStry has long been a place for women identifying and nonbinary folks to tell their stories. It’s a brave space for brave stories. This event is a chance to amplify your stories even more with a contest and prize.

HerStry centers the experiences of women identifying persons. They are looking for work from bigender/polygender persons, cisgender women, intergender persons/intersex persons, non-binary persons/gender non-conforming persons, transgender women/transfeminine persons, two-spirit. In other words, if you are a cis man, please refrain from submitting.

There is no theme to adhere to for this contest, simply nonfiction written by you, about you. Our stories are what make us, tell yours.

All essays must be true, about you, and previously unpublished. Essays must stay under 5,000 words.

Winners will be announced no later than April 4, 2025.

We are keen to encourage quality, so suggest writers to check their stories before submitting using Prowritingaid. They have free and paid versions and are the best writing software we know to help improve grammar, readability and check for repetition, ‘sticky’ sentences and suggest alternatives.