PAGED ESSAY @ Word-Fellows Workshop

Page a Writer Call

Share your most impactful life stories: thrilling adventures, uncanny encounters, fearful crises, or extraordinary episodes. Submit your essay in any format that suits your voice.

Write a creative non-fiction essay

• Subject: A true and meaningful experience.

• Style: Choose from personal letters, narratives, anecdotes, and more.

• Sensory Details: Bring your story to life with vivid descriptions.

• Reflection: Explore the impact of this experience on your life.

• Read for Inspiration: Read about writing the memoir.

The Word-Fellows Workshop

WordHouse welcomes your storytelling debut and will assess your submission. We are invested in how you develop the emotion in the story, how you face and process memory. We want to invite you to a Word-Fellows Workshop of your personal essays that explore a truly unique experience:

• The Extraordinary You: How do you bring your story to life?

• Time and Memory: How do you confront and shape the past?

We look forward to reading your compelling stories! Selected writers will be invited to a Word-Fellows Workshop to refine their work. Submit your essay today!

Guidelines for Admission to the Word-Fellows Workshop

What to submit

1. Submit ONE original, first-time essay of creative non-fiction. For this first batch of the workshop, we are accepting up to ten [10] personal essays.

2. Your personal story must be previously unpublished (this includes your website/blog).

3. Wordhouse will not accept any personal story featuring bigotry, hateful language, or sexual assault of any kind. We will make sure to discard every story written through artificial intelligence.

4. We do not accept poetry, flash fiction, short stories [fiction], and novel-in-progress at this time.

How to submit

5. Please send all stories as .doc or .docx attachments to ninangjops@pageawriter.online with your story title and your last name in the subject line.

6. Include a short third-person bio in your email.

7. Do not include a synopsis of the essay in your email. Do not paste the story into the body of the email.

8. Word count: 1000-1500 words. Please respect our word count. Use double space and 12pt Times Roman font.

Deadline of submission: May 30, 2025 at 11:59 EST

Payment: Free

Simultaneous Submissions: We are not accepting personal essays that are submitted simultaneously to other online platforms or publications.

Multiple Submissions: We will read only one personal essay per candidate.

Craft is important to us, and while we don’t expect perfection, we expect you to prepare your essay carefully. Please don’t send us scratch paper, doodles, or half-hearted attempts without due diligence.

We care about your ideas. Read the Wordhouse Publication guidelines if you are interested in pursuing a longer relationship with Wordhouse publishing. Your story is safe with us.

First Books we Recommend:

· Narito by Taftique

· Connect the Dots o Kung Paano Ko Kinulayan ang Aking Buhay by Genaro R. Gojo Cruz

· It’s a Mens World by Bebang Sy

· Everything is Fiction by Vicente Garcia Groyon

· How to Ride a Train to Ulaanbaatar and Other Essays by Joyce Roque

· The Body Papers by Grace Talusan

Note on Submissions

This PAWR1-call is FOR THE FIRST SERIES of free face-to-face Word-fellows workshop. If you will use this form here or here we will consider your submissions separately.