Submit Your Story
Tomorrow Club warmly welcomes submissions from young people who want to share their stories with an international audience. If you’re under 35, we encourage you to pitch your story to us.
While we prioritise submissions from the focus region, currently Americas, we are open to anyone, anywhere.
We’re looking for personal stories, in fiction or non-fiction with a youth specific perspective that connects with our vision.
The format can be long articles, commentary, essays, poems, short stories, lyrics and other creative forms of expression based on the written word (ideally ranging from 600 to 2,000 words). Video story formats are also welcome. If speaking out comes with risks, the option to write under a pseudonym is possible.
To submit, send us your pitch/idea (no more than 400 words), along with a biography and any links to previously published work, if you have them. If not, don't worry, that's partly why we are here. If your idea suits our mission, we’ll work with you.
Email your pitches to: [email protected]. Our editors review all submissions and will respond if we plan to move forward with your pitch.
Through Tomorrow Club You Can:
- Amplify your voice, story and the important issues you want to raise. We will make space for young voices often ignored by mainstream media, and share them across our global network with PEN. Collectively we can build a network of brave young voices.
- Amplify your voice as a guest on our podcast series, Brave Young Voices
- Learn more about people around your age across borders: the messages they carry, their struggles perspectives, work and experiences. We are working to develop new collaborations and strategies to support one another.
- Connect with the world’s largest association of writers. Join PEN's international network for free expression and its local community. If interested, fill in this form and we can support and follow up your request to join one of 90 PEN centres in different countries.If your country is not currently represented, you may be eligible to join another.
Attend online and in person events and workshops to connect with a wider community. We collaborate with various local and international partners, across PEN and beyond, to platform young voices. Creating and promote opportunities for youth exchange and engagement in partnership with international organisations, book fairs and forums to share and expand our spaces.
6. Alert us to young people speaking up and facing risks against their right to free expression We can explore safe ways to support them such as writing solidarity letters and publish their messages as “Empty Chairs” . We are proud to be guided by older peers and established experts across PEN International and sister organisations that we can consult; and who may be able to offer further advice, mentorship, guidance or support.
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