If you’d like to submit a personal essay or poem, please read these guidelines carefully and e-mail us if you have any questions. (Please note that we’re not publishing fiction at the moment.)
1. Please include your name, address, and phone number so that we can reach you if we have questions about your submission. (No information will be made public without your permission.)
2. If you’re submitting your writing, try to limit the length to approximately 500 – 2,000 words.
3. Poems will be reviewed for word-length on a case by case basis.
4. Send your submission as part of a regular e-mail and NOT as an attachment since we will not open or respond to attachments.
4. We regret that we cannot pay for submissions. This is a project taken on as a labor of love for the Jewish community.
5. You must be the sole copyright holder of the material that you submit.
6. We’ll consider reprints as long as the author retains copyright and informs us of where the material first appeared.
7. We are happy to consider simultaneous submissions as long as we’re informed and the author lets us know when a piece is accepted elsewhere.
8. By submitting material to The Jewish Writing Project, you give us the non-exclusive right to publish it online.
9. By publishing your material online, The Jewish Writing Project assumes no responsibility–financial or otherwise–with regard to your work.
10. Please be patient. Writing and editing take time. We want to give each submission the attention that it deserves. Nothing will go online without your permission.
11. For further information or to submit material, write to us at: bruceblack@ymail.com
The Jewish Writing Project 
Hello,
I’d like to write an article with my Rosh Hodesh It’s a Girl Thing! group. (for more information you can check out http://www.roshhodesh.org), Rosh Hodesh It’s a Girl Thing! is a program of Moving Traditions.
I saw you have some great questions for teens and we have a group of 9 teenagers that I think could co-write a collective article together.
How do I do a search on your website for a sample of a teen submission? I’d like to present an example to the group before we write our own.
Thanks so much,
Tami (Philadelphia, PA)
There is a cool site all about promoting Jewish writing. jewishstorywriting.com
You should check it out-i told them about you too…
I think you’r mission is incredible and inspiring.
Thank you
Thanks, Tanya, for the info and kind words. I’ll have to check out the site.
love that giant list of contributors, good job building community
February 6, 2019
Hello,
Re your 500 word limit for submissions, is that amount still in effect? I mean,
has that number not been increased? (I am thinking about submissions of short stories on Jewish subjects.)
Thank you,
David
davidtrans123@gmail.com
The 500 word limit is a loose guide.
Send whatever you’d like us to consider (as part of a email rather than as an attachment), and we’ll take a look.
Please remember that we don’t publish fiction.
Do you publish poetry in Hebrew?
If not, can you recommend a publication that does?
Thank you,
Rabbi Polonsky,
I’m afraid we don’t publish Hebrew poetry.
Best of luck with your poems.
Bruce
Hi,
At 73, as a recently Bat Mitzvahed woman, I am thrilled to hear about this project. I wrote an essay trying to figure out why I became obsessed and felt compelled to read from the Torah. It would be a perfect fit for your project, except for the fact that it’s 4000 words. That kind of experience took a lifetime to emerge, and could not be condensed into a brief essay. I hope that you will consider reading my essay, and including it in a publication. Thanks, Janice
Janice, thanks for your note and mazal tov on your bat mitzvah. Send what you’ve got to Bruceblack@ymail.com and we’ll be glad to take a look.
May I post the first page of a screenplay?
Submit what you’ve got and we’ll take a look.
Do you accept poetry in the Hebrew language?Thank you
Alas, sorry. Not yet. (עוד לא)