Call for Submissions: Solstice Carols: Remembering the Great Goddess

 

Cover Art by Kat Shaw

Girl God Books is accepting submissions for our upcoming compilation - Solstice Carols: Remembering the Great Goddess. This is our 2nd Carol book. Please check the table of contents of the first volume as we will not be publishing duplicate carols. Solstice poetry honoring the Great Mother is also welcome.

Edited by Trista Hendren, Sharon Smith and Pat Daly

Cover art by Kat Shaw

Scheduled publication: December 2025.

Please send your submissions to submissions@girlgod.org by June 21th, 2024 with the book title in your subject line. Please note that we cannot accommodate any late submissions or corrections. Please be sure that your song is not subject to any copyright restrictions prior to submission.

Submission Guidelines:

Please send your finished piece in a Word document. Calibri size 12 font is preferred. Please do not use any fancy formatting or fonts as it creates a lot more work on our end. Make sure to spell check before your submission.

Art should be sent in high resolution as a JPG. You may submit more than one piece for consideration, but due to the volume of submissions, please only send your best work.

Please note that we are looking for re-written carols that do not use male-centric language. We would like this collection to be woman and Goddess affirming, in remembrance of the Great Mother. You can hear an example here.

Please also include a bio in the third person under 150 words.

Accepted contributors will receive a contributor's copy of the book and the option to order as many copies of the book as they'd like at cost during the pre-order period to sell or gift as they wish.

 

Because we want to avoid duplication, we will continue to update this post with a list of re-written Carols. We are also interested in joyous artwork of women singing, playing instruments, or gathering for holiday festivities and rituals.

So far, we have:

 

Silver Bells - Sharon Smith

Silent Night - Rebekah Myers

Have Yourself a Faierie Little Solstice (Sung to Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas) by Marya 

Stark 

You can order our first volume of carols here.