HerStry — Abortion Stories (December 2026)
Overview
HerStry returns to a subject it has visited before, and the repetition is deliberate: the magazine treats abortion not as a single news cycle but as an ongoing body of lived experience that merits a standing platform. This call invites true, personal accounts—of an abortion, of the abortion experience, or of anything adjacent to it—and grants contributors latitude in interpretation. The editors are explicit that the theme may be approached widely, which suggests a curatorial posture more interested in honesty and specificity than in doctrinal alignment. The material terms are straightforward. There is a $3.00 USD submission fee. Selected work is published in the magazine, and contributors may request anonymity; HerStry states that if a story is chosen, the writer need only tell their editor that they do not wish their name shared. Submissions are read blind, and the editors ask that identifying material be kept out of the manuscript itself. There is no prize and no stated location; this is a publication opportunity, not a contest. The editorial vision here is one of witness and recognition. The call's own language—that a writer may find the process healing, or may find themselves in someone else's story—frames publication as an act of shared testimony rather than exposure. For writers whose work engages reproductive experience, the invitation is to submit a narrative that is true, personal, and shaped with care for the reader on the other side of the page.