MW USA Call for Writers

MW USA has an exciting ongoing opportunity for sharing your story, ministry, or book analysis. Each month we feature an original community journal entry in our Women's Voices blog celebrating and encouraging women, and we are inviting you to consider participating, by sending in a 500–800-word reflection, meditation or book review.

Your voice and perspective are a powerful part of our sisterhood as we follow Jesus together. Sharing our experiences and ideas is how we learn from each other. It helps us know how to support one another and enables us to see God more clearly. Even as our lives are still unfolding, venturing to share our perspective, as well as hearing from others, is a powerful way of connection.

Reach out now to pitch your post so we can schedule it for our monthly Women's Voices publication. If chosen, it will be listed in our blog roll, emailed to the sisterhood, and pointed to via social media posts on Facebook and Instagram.

Consider writing about your ministry, a favorite scripture, a good book, or a seasonal theme. For further inspiration: 

• Email Suzanne via our contact page to join our book review group for regular emails with book suggestions and access to advanced and hard copies. Feel free to also reach out if you have written a book and would like to have it reviewed.

• Find the common lectionary here.

• MW USA’s Scripture for 2025 is Jeremiah 29:11, “I alone know my purpose for you, says YHWH: my purpose for your prosperity and not to harm you, my purpose to give you hope and a future."

• Following are some seasonal themes our sisterhood has found relevant or might be interested in:

  • January: New Year’s Day (1/1), Women’s Christmas, Mid-Winter Warmth, Mentoring Month, Human Trafficking Awareness Day (1/11), + MLK Day/Day of Service (3rd Monday)

  • February: Galentine’s Day (2/13), Valentine’s Day (2/14), Ash Wednesday, Black History Month, Groundhog Day (2/2) + Random Acts of Kindness Day (2/17)

  • March: Women’s History Month, International Women’s Day (3/8), Lent, Read Across American (3/2), Pi Day (3/14) + World Storytelling Day (3/20)

  • April: Easter, Community Service Month, Siblings Day (4/10) + Earth Day (4/22)

  • May: Mother’s Day (Second Sunday), Mental Health Month + International Worker’s Day (5/1)

  • June: Pride Month, PTSD Awareness Month, Gun Violence Awareness Month, Immigrant Heritage Month, Donut Day (6/3), Juneteenth (6/19) + World Refugee Day (6/20)

  • July: Disability Pride Month, MennoCon, Mid-Summertime, Malala Day (7/12) + International Day of Friendship (7/30)

  • August: Intersectionality Awareness Month, Back-to-School, + Women’s Equality Day (8/26)

  • September: Hispanic Heritage Month (9/15-10/15), Grandparents Day (9/11) + International Day of Peace (9/21)

  • October: Women’s Small Business Month, Vegetarian Month, International Day of Nonviolence (10/2), Taco Day (10/4), World Teacher’s Day (10/5), World Mental Health Day (10/10) Day of the Girl (10/11) + International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (10/17)

  • November: Indigenous Heritage Month, National Family Caregiver Month, All Saints Day (11/1), World Kindness Day (11/13), International Day for Tolerance (11/16), National Day of Listening (11/25), Thanksgiving (3rd Thursday)

  • December: Advent, Christmas + International Day of Persons with Disabilities (12/3)

To help as you write, please consider the following guidelines adapted from MC USA:

• Affiliation: Please include your title and organization or congregational affiliation, as you prefer. Feel free to list more than one, and jobs for which you are not paid definitely count! We don’t include a bio with our posts, but welcome listing whatever professional or social affiliation with which you’d like to be identified.

• Optional Photo: Consider including a high-resolution digital image that depicts some aspect of your writing. It does not have to be a picture of you, but could be if you'd like. Be sure you have permission to share it.

• Publishing permission: By submitting a writing, you provide MW USA with permission to publish it on our Women’s Voices blog and share it through MW USA’s social media platforms.

• Write to share information from first-hand experiences and verifiable sources that will increase understanding.

• Promote learning and spiritual reflection, not destructive debate.

• Be kind and respectful of others, even those who may not share your views. Be mindful of language that may be inadvertently divisive (i.e., “we” vs. “them”).

• If quoting Scripture, please include the book, verse number(s) and version of the Bible. Avoid paraphrasing.

• Try to avoid using jargon/abbreviations. Explain any such words or phrases early in the blog.

  
  

Each time we email our Women’s Voices Blog posts, MW USA connects with 3,000 people who care about encouraging, empowering and celebrating one another. MW USA is for women however they come to us: broken, powerful, questioning, free. Pen your story and share it with our sisterhood today!

Contact us today with questions and ideas!