SUBMISSIONS
TELL OUT OF EDITS
YOUR STORY
Out of Edits is always looking for women with stories about changing their minds, starting over, choosing differently, and figuring out what comes next.
Your story might become a conversation on She Chose Again, a written feature, a first-person essay, part of a larger Out of Edits story, or something else entirely.
You don’t need a perfectly packaged story. Tell me what happened.
About 5 minutes. No pitch required.
01 / EDITORIAL GUIDELINES
WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR
01
THE UNVARNISHED TRUTH
I want the logistical hurdles, the financial anxiety, and the messy transitions that usually get edited out of reinvention stories.
02
GIVE ME THE SPECIFICS
Tell me about the moment something stopped fitting and what you did next. The money, timing, tradeoffs, experiments, and changes of mind are usually where the real story is.
03
THE 'WHY' BEYOND THE 'WHAT'
I care about the internal shift behind the decision as much as the decision itself. You don’t need to have it all figured out or wrapped up in a lesson.
02 / YOUR STORY
TELL ME
WHAT HAPPENED
About 5 minutes. A few honest sentences per question is plenty.
You don’t need to know what format your story fits. Figuring that out is my job.
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