Your submission must be your own original content, and it must be based on factual events. Here are just a few examples of non-fiction topics we are actively seeking, to help inspire your creativity!

People:
* interviews with interesting women
* women's issues - health, self-defense, etc.

Events:
* exhibitions by female artists
* news of women being discriminated against

Experiences:
* biographies of women in a variety of situations
* diary entries by women in any walk of life
* true-life stories

Places:
* women's travel
* historical research of points and places of interest to women

Essay:
* What it is like to be a woman in a specific situation

The non-fiction area is not intended for poetry. Please submit all original poetry to the Poetry editorial team.

Entry Details

Submissions should be limited to three entries for a given issue. Each submission should not exceed 5,000 words in length.

BellaOnline is a world wide publication read by people of all ages and all cultural backgrounds. Because of that we cannot run any sexual content or profanities.

There should be a full blank line between paragraphs. Please do not use tabs to indicate a new paragraph. Tabs are not understood by browsers and easily get lost.

Be sure to spell check your submission. We expect entries to be polished and in publishable shape - if you have numerous spelling errors in your work, it indicates to us that your work is not yet ready for publication.

Be sure to also check for common typos. If you are writing a contraction of "it is", there is always an apostrophe, "it's". If you are using any other use of "its" there is no apostrophe.

It's misty and tranquil this spring morning; let's go for a stroll along the beach.
Its hue a sickly yellow, the moon faded in and out of view behind a billowing raincloud.

Non-Fiction Submission Form

Main Submission Guidelines

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By far the best way to get an idea of what our literary review is looking for is to peruse our past issues!

Archive of Past Issues