We need your voice
Healthy Rich shines a spotlight on the diversity of our relationships with work and money. Be part of the conversation!
CURRENT WRITING CONTEST
How has your identity as a woman affected your career, jobs and/or your relationship with money?
Submit your essay on the theme of “Work and Womanhood” to share your stories, experience and perspective.
What we’re looking for
Genre: Personal Essay
Length: 500–2,000 words
Theme: Work and Womanhood
Questions to answer: How has your identity as a woman affected your career, jobs and/or your relationship with money?
Open to: All trans and cis women writers 18+, regardless of previous experience or publication.
Submission period: July 15–Sep. 15, 2021
No entry fee.
Prizes
One 1st-place, one 2nd-place and up to 10 finalists will be published. All winners get a mentor session and lifetime membership in our community of contributors. 1st- and 2nd-place winners also receive a cash prize.
? 1st place: $250, publication, mentor session, community membership.
? 2nd place: $75, publication, mentor session, community membership.
? Finalists: publication, mentor session, community membership.
All entrants get a free one-year subscription ($70 value) to Field Notes, an exclusive newsletter series of stories, tips and resources to be a happy and healthy freelancer.
Cash prize paid via PayPal or Venmo.
How to submit
To submit your essay for consideration:
Create the essay in a Google Doc with sharing settings on “Anyone on the internet with this link can edit.”
Fill out the submission form below, and add the Google Doc link.
That’s it! A few notes:
We require Google Docs because they facilitate collaboration well and anyone can create an account for free. If you prefer to compose elsewhere, just copy+paste your essay into a Doc to submit 🙂
We ask for a summary. Don’t fret over it! We won’t judge your summary. It just helps us confirm your essay fits the theme.
We don’t publish anything without your permission. You’ll hear from us if we’re interested in your essay, and you’ll approve all edits before publication.
Questions? Email us: contest@healthyrich.co.
Submit your essay
Name
Email
Submission title
Summary (1–3 sentences)
https:// Link to Google Doc draft (Don’t forget sharing settings!)
What to expect after you submit
Judging process and criteria:
?⚖️ Publication decisions are determined by Dana Sitar, Healthy Rich Co. founder and editor, and Farrah Daniel-Bermudez, a Healthy Rich writing contest judge.
?⚖️ Winning essays will fit the theme, showcase exceptional writing, and provide our audience a valuable perspective on work, money or both.
?⚖️ All submissions must be original and previously unpublished. No simultaneous submissions, please — thank you!
Editorial process:
We’ll let you know via email within three weeks of the submission deadline if we pick your essay for publication. If you don’t hear from us by then, assume we didn’t choose your essay for this contest, and feel free to submit or publish it elsewhere.
Once chosen for publication, your essay will go through our editorial process, including:
? One round of substantive feedback and revision suggestions from the editor.
? Revisions from you.
? Copy edit from the editor and your approval.
We publish essays throughout a 12-ish-week publication period on the Healthy Rich blog and include them in our newsletters to 2,500+ subscribers.
Rights
By agreeing to publication, you grant Healthy Rich/Dana Sitar first electronic rights to your essay, which means:
We have the right to publish the piece in a digital format (e.g. on the website).
We’ll be the first publisher of the piece.
After the piece is published once, all rights revert back to you.
More detail and application HERE