So to Speak has long positioned itself as a journal where feminist inquiry meets literary risk, and its nonfiction section carries that mandate with particular seriousness. The editors are not seeking tidy resolutions or thesis-driven arguments; they are asking for work that lingers in uncertainty, that treats the self as a site of investigation rather than confession, and that understands identity as a problem to be explored rather than a conclusion to be announced. The journal's stated admiration for writers like Vivian Gornick, Melissa Febos, and Maggie Nelson signals an editorial sensibility drawn to hybridity, intellectual restlessness, and prose that refuses the false comfort of easy epiphany. The call is explicitly intersectional and explicitly open to formal experimentation. Nonfiction Editor Bex seeks personal essays with stakes, explorations of gender, and long-form work that converses with art, fact, and experience. Assistant Nonfiction Editor Gemmalee seeks narrative essays and experimental pieces oriented around discovery or transformation of identity, as well as nonfiction that braids cultural criticism with personal experience. The journal's own recent contributors—Haven Steel, Dani Putney, Jade Green—offer a working sense of the register: reflective, strange, willing to get weird, and unafraid of the gray areas. This is a print issue, which matters. The work selected will exist in a durable object, not a transient feed, and the editors are reading for pieces that reward that permanence. There is no prize attached and no fee waiver indicated; the $4 fee is a modest but real barrier that signals the journal's independent, university-affiliated operation. Writers should approach this as a literary submission to a discerning editorial team, not a contest.